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Automata and AB-Categorial Grammars

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AB-categorial grammars (CGs in the following) is a lexicalized formalism having the expressive power of ε-free context-free languages [1]. It has a long common history with natural language [2]. Here, we first relate unidirectional CGs to a special case of recursive transition networks [3]. We then illustrate how the structures produced by a CG can be generated by a pair of recursive automata.

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Tellier, I. (2006). Automata and AB-Categorial Grammars. In: Farré, J., Litovsky, I., Schmitz, S. (eds) Implementation and Application of Automata. CIAA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3845. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11605157_35

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