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FUIN
2007
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13 years 5 months ago
Parsing Expression Grammar as a Primitive Recursive-Descent Parser with Backtracking
Two recent developments in the field of formal languages are Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG) and packrat parsing. The PEG formalism is similar to BNF, but defines syntax in ter...
Roman R. Redziejowski
MFCS
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Dual of Concatenation
A binary language-theoretic operation is proposed, which is dual to the concatenation of languages in the same sense as the universal quantifier in logic is dual to the existenti...
Alexander Okhotin
JOLLI
2006
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13 years 5 months ago
A Note on the Expressive Power of Probabilistic Context Free Grammars
We examine the expressive power of probabilistic context free grammars (PCFGs), with a special focus on the use of probabilities as a mechanism for reducing ambiguity by filtering ...
Gabriel G. Infante López, Maarten de Rijke
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Machine Translation Based on Constraint-Based Synchronous Grammar
This paper proposes a variation of synchronous grammar based on the formalism of context-free grammar by generalizing the first component of productions that models the source text...
Fai Wong, Dong-Cheng Hu, Yu-Hang Mao, Ming-Chui Do...
ACL
2001
13 years 6 months ago
An Algebra for Semantic Construction in Constraint-based Grammars
We develop a framework for formalizing semantic construction within grammars expressed in typed feature structure logics, including HPSG. The approach provides an alternative to t...
Ann A. Copestake, Alex Lascarides, Dan Flickinger