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Logic · Mathematics 2012-03-05 Nikolay L. Poliakov

A \emph{border} of a word $w$ is a word that is both a non-empty proper prefix and suffix of $w$. If $w$ has a border, then it is said to be \emph{bordered}; otherwise, it is said to be \emph{unbordered}. The main results of this paper are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Daniel Gabric

I study the modal theory of linear orders under embeddings, monotone maps, condensations, and end-extensions. I prove modality elimination for embeddings and monotone maps, show that condensations make scatteredness modally definable, and…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Wojciech Aleksander Wołoszyn

In the paper "Randomizations of Scattered Sentences", Keisler showed that if Martin's axiom for aleph one holds, then every scattered sentence has few separable randomizations, and asked whether the conclusion could be proved in ZFC alone.…

We propose a scalable framework for deciding, proving, and explaining (in-)equivalence of context-free grammars. We present an implementation of the framework and evaluate it on large data sets collected within educational support systems.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Marko Schmellenkamp , Thomas Zeume , Sven Argo , Sandra Kiefer , Cedric Siems , Fynn Stebel

In this paper we address the decision problem for a fragment of set theory with restricted quantification which extends the language studied in [4] with pair related quantifiers and constructs, in view of possible applications in the field…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-10-10 Domenico Cantone , Cristiano Longo

We study distributional learning of context-free languages under a fixed recognizable congruence $\sim_h$ given as the kernel of an explicit finite monoid homomorphism $h:\Sigma^*\to M$. For this fixed-$h$ setting, we develop a finite typed…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Takayuki Kuriyama

We implement a divide-and-concur iterative projection approach to context-free grammar inference. Unlike most state-of-the-art models of natural language processing, our method requires a relatively small number of discrete parameters,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Sean Deyo , Veit Elser

Cross-lingual alignment in pretrained language models enables knowledge transfer across languages. Similar alignment has been reported in Whisper-style speech encoders, based on spoken translation retrieval using representational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Ryan Soh-Eun Shim , Domenico De Cristofaro , Chengzhi Martin Hu , Alessandro Vietti , Barbara Plank

The concept of scattered polynomials is generalized to those of exceptional scattered sequences which are shown to be the natural algebraic counterpart of $\mathbb{F}_{q^n}$-linear MRD codes. The first infinite family in the first…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Daniele Bartoli , Giuseppe Marino , Alessandro Neri , Lara Vicino

Synchronous Context-Free Grammars (SCFGs), also known as syntax-directed translation schemata, are unlike context-free grammars in that they do not have a binary normal form. In general, parsing with SCFGs takes space and time polynomial in…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-11-27 Pierluigi Crescenzi , Daniel Gildea , Andrea Marino , Gianluca Rossi , Giorgio Satta

We present a simple and natural non-pricing mechanism for allocating divisible goods among strategic agents having lexicographic preferences. Our mechanism has favorable properties of incentive compatibility (strategy-proofness), Pareto…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Leonard J. Schulman , Vijay V. Vazirani

We describe an approach to robust domain-independent syntactic parsing of unrestricted naturally-occurring (English) input. The technique involves parsing sequences of part-of-speech and punctuation labels using a unification-based grammar…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Ted Briscoe , John Carroll

A language over an alphabet $B = A \cup \overline{A}$ of opening ($A$) and closing ($\overline{A}$) brackets, is balanced if it is a subset of the Dyck language $D_B$ over $B$, and it is well-formed if all words are prefixes of words in…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Raphaela Löbel , Michael Luttenberger , Helmut Seidl

Words are fundamental linguistic units that connect thoughts and things through meaning. However, words do not appear independently in a text sequence. The existence of syntactic rules induces correlations among neighboring words. Using an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-15 David Sanchez , Luciano Zunino , Juan De Gregorio , Raul Toral , Claudio Mirasso

We present a first-order theory of sequences with integer elements, Presburger arithmetic, and regular constraints, which can model significant properties of data structures such as arrays and lists. We give a decision procedure for the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-08-14 Carlo A. Furia

In this paper we consider the problem of context-free grammars comparison from the analysis point of view. We show that the problem can be reduced to numerical solution of systems of nonlinear matrix equations. The approach presented here…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-23 J. Joao Almeida , Eliana Grande , Georgi Smirnov

Word ordering is a constrained language generation task taking unordered words as input. Existing work uses linear models and neural networks for the task, yet pre-trained language models have not been studied in word ordering, let alone…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Zebin Ou , Meishan Zhang , Yue Zhang

Word embeddings have been shown to be useful across state-of-the-art systems in many natural language processing tasks, ranging from question answering systems to dependency parsing. (Herbelot and Vecchi, 2015) explored word embeddings and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Franck Dernoncourt

We give a natural complete infinitary axiomatization of the equational theory of the context-free languages, answering a question of Lei{\ss} (1992).

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-05 Niels Bjørn Bugge Grathwohl , Fritz Henglein , Dexter Kozen