Learning Context Free Grammars with the Finite Context Property: A Correction of A. Clark's Algorithm
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A. Clark[2] has shown that the class of languages which have a context-free grammar whose nonterminals can be defined by a finite set of contexts can be identified in the limit, given an enumeration of the language and a test for membership. We show by example that Clark’s algorithm may converge to a grammar that does not define the input language. We review the theoretical background, provide a non-obvious modification of the algorithm and prove its correctness.
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تاریخ انتشار 2014