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Weightreducing grammars and ultralinear languages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2004

Ulrike Brandt ,
Ghislain Delepine  and
Hermann K.-G. Walter
Ulrike Brandt
Affiliation:
University of Technology, Darmstadt Department of Computer Science, Germany; brandt@iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de., walter@iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de., gdelepine@yahoo.fr.
Ghislain Delepine
Affiliation:
University of Technology, Darmstadt Department of Computer Science, Germany; brandt@iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de., walter@iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de., gdelepine@yahoo.fr.
Hermann K.-G. Walter
Affiliation:
University of Technology, Darmstadt Department of Computer Science, Germany; brandt@iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de., walter@iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de., gdelepine@yahoo.fr.
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Abstract

We exhibit a new class of grammars with the help of weightfunctions. They are characterized by decreasing the weight during the derivation process. A decision algorithm for the emptiness problem is developed. This class contains non-contextfree grammars. The corresponding language class is identical to the class of ultralinear languages.

Keywords

Chomsky-grammarsweightfunctionsweightreducing grammarsemptiness problemultralinear languages.
Type
Research Article
Information
RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , January 2004 , pp. 19 - 25
Copyright
© EDP Sciences, 2004

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