Terminal Context in Context-Sensitive Grammars
Author(s) -
Ronald V. Book
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
siam journal on computing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.533
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1095-7111
pISSN - 0097-5397
DOI - 10.1137/0201003
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , grammar , string (physics) , context sensitive grammar , rewriting , context free grammar , tree adjoining grammar , programming language , computer science , linguistics , natural language processing , parsing , mathematics , history , philosophy , archaeology , mathematical physics
If every non-context-free rewriting rule of a context-sensitive (with erasing) grammar has as left context a string of terminal symbols and the left context is at least as long as the right context, then the language generated is context-free. If every non-context-free rewriting rule of a context-sensitive (with erasing) grammar has as left and right context strings of terminal symbols, then the language generated is context-free.
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