An efficient automata approach to some problems on context-free grammars

[en] Book and Otto (1993) solve a number of word problems for monadic string-rewriting systems using an elegant automata-based technique. In this note we observe that the technique is also very interesting from a pedagogical point of view, since it provides a uniform solution to several elementary problems on context-free languages.

Disciplines :

Computer science

Author, co-author :

Bouajjani, Ahmed

Esparza, Javier

Finkel, Alain

Maler, Oded

Rossmanith, Peter

Willems, Bernard

Wolper, Pierre ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Dép. d'électric., électron. et informat. (Inst.Montefiore) > Informatique (parallélisme et banques de données)

Language :

English

Title :

An efficient automata approach to some problems on context-free grammars

Publication date :

June 2000

Journal title :

Information Processing Letters

ISSN :

0020-0190

Publisher :

Elsevier Science

Volume :

Issue :

5-6

Pages :

221-227

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