An Introduction to Formal Language Theory

Kfoury, A. J., Arbib, Michael A., Moll, R. N.

ISBN 10: 0387966986 / ISBN 13: 9780387966984

Editore: Springer, 1988

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• Titolo: An Introduction to Formal Language Theory
• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 1988
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0387966986
• ISBN 13: 9780387966984
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Edizione: 1st Edition.
• Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

The study of formal languages and of related families of automata has long been at the core of theoretical computer science. Until recently, the main reasons for this centrality were connected with the specification and analy­ sis of programming languages, which led naturally to the following ques­ tions. How might a grammar be written for such a language? How could we check whether a text were or were not a well-formed program generated by that grammar? How could we parse a program to provide the structural analysis needed by a compiler? How could we check for ambiguity to en­ sure that a program has a unique analysis to be passed to the computer? This focus on programming languages has now been broadened by the in­ creasing concern of computer scientists with designing interfaces which allow humans to communicate with computers in a natural language, at least concerning problems in some well-delimited domain of discourse. The necessary work in computational linguistics draws on studies both within linguistics (the analysis of human languages) and within artificial intelligence. The present volume is the first textbook to combine the topics of formal language theory traditionally taught in the context of program­ ming languages with an introduction to issues in computational linguistics. It is one of a series, The AKM Series in Theoretical Computer Science, designed to make key mathematical developments in computer science readily accessible to undergraduate and beginning graduate students.

Contenuti

Contents: Introduction.- Grammars and Machines.- Push-Down Automata and Context-Free Grammars.- Parsing, Part I.- Turing Machines and Language Theory.- Fixed Point Principles in Language Theory.- Parsing, Part II.- The Formal Description of Natural Languages.- Recent Approaches to Linguistic Theory.- References for Chapters 8 and 9.- Symbol Index.- Author Index.- Subject Index.