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Context-free text grammars

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A text is a tripleτ=(λ,ρ 1,ρ 2) such that λ is a labeling function, andρ 1 andρ 2 are linear orders on the domain of λ; hence τ may be seen as a word (λ,ρ 1) together with an additional linear orderρ 2 on the domain of λ. The orderρ 2 is used to give to the word (λ,ρ 1) itsindividual hierarchical representation (syntactic structure) which may be a tree but it may be also more general than a tree. In this paper we introducecontext-free grammars for texts and investigate their basic properties. Since each text has its own individual structure, the role of such a grammar should be that of a definition of a pattern common to all individual texts. This leads to the notion of ashapely context-free text grammar also investigated in this paper.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, 80309, Boulder, CO, USA

    A. Ehrenfeucht & G. Rozenberg

  2. Department of Computer Science, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9512, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands

    P. ten Pas & G. Rozenberg

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Ehrenfeucht, A., ten Pas, P. & Rozenberg, G. Context-free text grammars. Acta Informatica 31, 161–206 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01192159

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