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Parsing is an important problem in computer science and yet surprisingly little attention has been devoted to its formal verification. In this paper, we present TRX: a parser interpreter formally developed in the proof assistant Coq,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Adam Koprowski , Henri Binsztok

Recently researchers working in the LFG framework have proposed algorithms for taking advantage of the implicit context-free components of a unification grammar [Maxwell 96]. This paper clarifies the mathematical foundations of these…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Marc Dymetman

This report presents a formalization of May's theorem in the proof assistant Coq. It describes how the theorem statement is first translated into Coq definitions, and how it is subsequently proved. Various aspects of the proof and related…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Kwing Hei Li

We study the problem of grammar-constrained context-free language reachability in graphs, focusing on complexity and empirical performance. We present an algorithmic framework for evaluating reachability queries constrained by context-free…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Faruk Alpay , Levent Sarioglu

We discuss some aspects of our work on the mechanization of syntax and semantics in the UniMath library, based on the proof assistant Coq. We focus on experiences where Coq (as a type-theoretic proof assistant with decidable typechecking)…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Benedikt Ahrens , Ralph Matthes , Kobe Wullaert

A grammar logic refers to an extension to the multi-modal logic K in which the modal axioms are generated from a formal grammar. We consider a proof theory, in nested sequent calculus, of grammar logics with converse, i.e., every modal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-04-12 Alwen Tiu , Egor Ianovski , Rajeev Gore

The paper demonstrates the non-closure of the family of unambiguous linear languages (that is, those defined by unambiguous linear context-free grammars) under complementation. To be precise, a particular unambiguous linear grammar is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Olga Martynova , Alexander Okhotin

Context-free S grammars are introduced, for arbitrary (storage) type S, as a uniform framework for recursion-based grammars, automata, and transducers, viewed as programs. To each occurrence of a nonterminal of a context-free S grammar an…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-05 Joost Engelfriet

CoqQ is a framework for reasoning about quantum programs in the Coq proof assistant. Its main components are: a deeply embedded quantum programming language, in which classic quantum algorithms are easily expressed, and an expressive…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Li Zhou , Gilles Barthe , Pierre-Yves Strub , Junyi Liu , Mingsheng Ying

Artificial intelligence assisted mathematical proof has become a highly focused area nowadays. One key problem in this field is to generate formal mathematical proofs from natural language proofs. Due to historical reasons, the formal proof…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Lihan Xie , Zhicheng Hui , Qinxiang Cao

Xavier Leroy and Sandrine Blazy in 2007 conducted a formal verification, using the Coq proof assistant, of a memory model for low-level imperative languages such as C. Considering their formalization was performed essentially in first-order…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Pedro Barroso , Mário Pereira , António Ravara

We present the formalization of a theory of syntax with bindings that has been developed and refined over the last decade to support several large formalization efforts. Terms are defined for an arbitrary number of constructors of varying…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Lorenzo Gheri , Andrei Popescu

In this work, we investigate whether improving task clarity can enhance reasoning ability of large language models, focusing on theorem proving in Coq. We introduce a concept-level metric to evaluate task clarity and show that adding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Yanzhen Lu , Hanbin Yang , Xiaodie Wang , Ge Zhang , Biao Li , Chenxu Fu , Chao Li , Yang Yuan , Andrew Chi-Chih Yao

We develop a sound and complete equational theory for the functional quantum programming language QML. The soundness and completeness of the theory are with respect to the previously-developed denotational semantics of QML. The completeness…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-05-06 Thorsten Altenkirch , Jonathan Grattage , Juliana K. Vizzotto , Amr Sabry

In this paper, we assess the complexity results of formalisms that describe the feature theories used in computational linguistics. We show that from these complexity results no immediate conclusions can be drawn about the complexity of the…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Marten Trautwein

One of the proposed solutions for improving the scalability of semantics of programming languages is Component-Based Semantics, introduced by Peter D. Mosses. It is expected that this framework can also be used effectively for modular meta…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-08-17 Ken Madlener , Sjaak Smetsers , Marko van Eekelen

In this project, a rather complete proof-theoretical formalization of Lambek Calculus (non-associative with arbitrary extensions) has been ported from Coq proof assistent to HOL4 theorem prover, with some improvements and new theorems.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Chun Tian

Our research is part of a wider project that aims to investigate and reason about the correctness of scheme-based source code transformations of Erlang programs. In order to formally reason about the definition of a programming language and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Péter Bereczky , Dániel Horpácsi , Simon Thompson

We investigate the proof theory of regular expressions with fixed points, construed as a notation for (omega-)context-free grammars. Starting with a hypersequential system for regular expressions due to Das and Pous, we define its extension…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Anupam Das , Abhishek De

We give in this paper a logical characterization for unambiguous Context Free Languages, in the vein of descriptive complexity. A fragment of the logic characterizing context free languages given by Lautemann, Schwentick and Th\'erien [18]…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Yassine Hachaïchi