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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

Boolean grammars generalize context-free rewriting by extending the possibilities when dealing with different rules for the same nonterminal symbol. By allowing not only disjunction (as in the case of usual context-free grammars), but also…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Patrik Adrián , György Vaszil

Language is contextual as meanings of words are dependent on their contexts. Contextuality is, concomitantly, a well-defined concept in quantum mechanics where it is considered a major resource for quantum computations. We investigate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Daphne Wang , Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh , Samson Abramsky , Victor H. Cervantes

We introduce a formal logical language, called conditional probability logic (CPL), which extends first-order logic and which can express probabilities, conditional probabilities and which can compare conditional probabilities. Intuitively…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-08-19 Vera Koponen

While context-free grammars are characterized by a simple proof-theoretic grammatical formalism namely categorial grammar and its logic the Lambek calculus, no such characterizations were known for tree-adjoining grammars, and even for any…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Hiroyoshi Komatsu

We develop a general framework for weighted parsing which is built on top of grammar-based language models and employs multioperator monoids as weight algebras. It generalizes previous work in that area (semiring parsing, weighted deductive…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Richard Mörbitz , Heiko Vogler

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

We address the challenge of extracting structured information from business documents without detailed annotations. We propose Deep Conditional Probabilistic Context Free Grammars (DeepCPCFG) to parse two-dimensional complex documents and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Freddy C. Chua , Nigel P. Duffy

Once one has enriched LFG's formal machinery with the linear logic mechanisms needed for semantic interpretation as proposed by Dalrymple et. al., it is natural to ask whether these make any existing components of LFG redundant. As…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mark Johnson

The relationship between Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG) functional structures (f-structures) for sentences and their semantic interpretations can be expressed directly in a fragment of linear logic in a way that explains correctly the…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Mary Dalrymple , John Lamping , Fernando Pereira , Vijay Saraswat

We study the parsing complexity of Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG) in the formalism of Vijay-Shanker and Weir (1994). As our main result, we prove that any parsing algorithm for this formalism will take in the worst case exponential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Marco Kuhlmann , Giorgio Satta , Peter Jonsson

File formats specify how data is encoded for persistent storage. They cannot be formalized as context-free grammars since their specifications include context-sensitive patterns such as the random access pattern and the type-length-value…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Jialun Zhang , Greg Morrisett , Gang Tan

Various variants of Parikh automata on infinite words have recently been introduced in the literature. However, with some exceptions only their non-deterministic versions have been considered. In this paper we study the deterministic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Mario Grobler , Sebastian Siebertz

Cyclic equalizability is a notion introduced by Shinagawa and Nuida in 2025, in the study of card-based cryptography. Informally, a collection of words is cyclically equalizable if, by inserting the same letters at the same positions in all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Sarunyu Thongjarast , Sarit Pasiphol , Suthee Ruangwises

In modern mathematics, graphs figure as one of the better-investigated class of mathematical objects. Various properties of graphs, as well as graph-processing algorithms, can be useful if graphs of a certain kind are used as denotations…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Alex Shkotin

Scaling dense PCFGs to thousands of nonterminals via a low-rank parameterization of the rule probability tensor has been shown to be beneficial for unsupervised parsing. However, PCFGs scaled this way still perform poorly as a language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Wei Liu , Songlin Yang , Yoon Kim , Kewei Tu

Context-free grammars are not able to model cross-serial dependencies in natural languages. To overcome this issue, Seki et al. introduced a generalization called $m$-multiple context-free grammars ($m$-MCFGs), which deal with $m$-tuples of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Florian Lehner , Christian Lindorfer

A graph $G$ is a pairwise compatibility graph (PCG) if there exists an edge-weighted tree and an interval $I$, such that each leaf of the tree is a vertex of the graph, and there is an edge $\{ x, y \}$ in $G$ if and only if the weight of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-09 Tiziana Calamoneri , Manuel Lafond , Angelo Monti , Blerina Sinaimeri

B\"uchi's theorem states that $\omega$-regular languages are characterized as languages of the form $\bigcup_i U_i V_i^\omega$, where $U_i$ and $V_i$ are regular languages. Parikh automata are automata on finite words whose transitions are…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Mario Grobler , Sebastian Siebertz

Considering the speed in which humans resolve syntactic ambiguity, and the overwhelming evidence that syntactic ambiguity is resolved through selection of the analysis whose interpretation is the most `sensible', one comes to the conclusion…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Michael Niv