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A language L is closed if L = L*. We consider an operation on closed languages, L-*, that is an inverse to Kleene closure. It is known that if L is closed and regular, then L-* is also regular. We show that the analogous result fails to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-01 Narad Rampersad , Jeffrey Shallit , Ming-wei Wang

Static word embeddings that represent words by a single vector cannot capture the variability of word meaning in different linguistic and extralinguistic contexts. Building on prior work on contextualized and dynamic word embeddings, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Valentin Hofmann , Janet B. Pierrehumbert , Hinrich Schütze

The $P$ versus $NP$ problem is still unsolved. But there are several oracles with $P$ unequal $NP$ relative to them. Here we will prove, that $P\not=NP$ relative to a $P$-complete oracle. In this paper, we use padding arguments as the proof…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Reiner Czerwinski

We discuss the computational complexity of context-free languages, concentrating on two well-known structural properties---immunity and pseudorandomness. An infinite language is REG-immune (resp., CFL-immune) if it contains no infinite…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-09-20 Tomoyuki Yamakami

This paper is a continuation of the study of topological properties of omega context free languages (omega-CFL). We proved before that the class of omega-CFL exhausts the hierarchy of Borel sets of finite rank, and that there exist some…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-06-02 Olivier Finkel

A discrete temporal constraint satisfaction problem is a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) whose constraint language consists of relations that are first-order definable over $(\Bbb Z,<)$. Our main result says that every distance CSP is…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-04-27 Manuel Bodirsky , Barnaby Martin , Antoine Mottet

The separability problem for word languages of a class $\mathcal{C}$ by languages of a class $\mathcal{S}$ asks, for two given languages $I$ and $E$ from $\mathcal{C}$, whether there exists a language $S$ from $\mathcal{S}$ that includes…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Wojciech Czerwiński , Wim Martens , Lorijn van Rooijen , Marc Zeitoun , Georg Zetzsche

This paper investigates the existence of inseparable disjoint pairs of NP languages and related strong hypotheses in computational complexity. Our main theorem says that, if NP does not have measure 0 in EXP, then there exist disjoint pairs…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Lance Fortnow , Jack H. Lutz , Elvira Mayordomo

The purpose of this article is to examine and limit the conditions in which the P complexity class could be equivalent to the NP complexity class. Proof is provided by demonstrating that as the number of clauses in a NP-complete problem…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2008-09-07 Jerrald Meek

We prove that the finite condensation rank (FC-rank) of the lexicographic ordering of a context-free language is strictly less than $\omega^\omega$.

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Arnaud Carayol , Zoltan Esik

State-of-the-art deep-learning-based approaches to Natural Language Processing (NLP) are credited with various capabilities that involve reasoning with natural language texts. In this paper we carry out a large-scale empirical study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Viktor Schlegel , Kamen V. Pavlov , Ian Pratt-Hartmann

We present a model of NLP in which ontology and context are directly included in a grammar. The model is based on the concept of {\em construction}, consisting of a set of features of form, a set of semantic and pragmatic conditions…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Wlodek Zadrozny

We present a new proof that $O_2$ is a multiple context-free language. It contrasts with a recent proof by Salvati (2015) in its avoidance of concepts that seem specific to two-dimensional geometry, such as the complex exponential function.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-14 Mark-Jan Nederhof

We consider some questions about formal languages that arise when inverses of letters, words and languages are defined. The reduced representation of a language over the free monoid is its unique equivalent representation in the free group.…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2009-10-26 Thomas Ang , Giovanni Pighizzini , Narad Rampersad , Jeffrey Shallit

There have been many attempts to solve the P versus NP problem. However, with a new proof method, P not equal NP can be proved. A time limit is set for an arbitrary Turing machine and an input word is rejected on a timeout. The time limit…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Reiner Czerwinski

In this paper, we give a formal definition of the popular word-guessing game Wordle. We show that, in general, determining if a given Wordle instance admits a winning strategy is NP-complete. We also show that given a Wordle instance of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Will Rosenbaum

This introduction aims to tell the story of how we put words into computers. It is part of the story of the field of natural language processing (NLP), a branch of artificial intelligence. It targets a wide audience with a basic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Noah A. Smith

Answering a recent question of Crochemore, we prove that the language of words that are not abelian squares is not context-free.

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-20 Shuo Tan

A computational system implemented exclusively through the spiking of neurons was recently shown capable of syntax, that is, of carrying out the dependency parsing of simple English sentences. We address two of the most important questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Daniel Mitropolsky , Adiba Ejaz , Mirah Shi , Mihalis Yannakakis , Christos H. Papadimitriou

We give a new characterization of $\mathsf{NL}$ as the class of languages whose members have certificates that can be verified with small error in polynomial time by finite state machines that use a constant number of random bits, as…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Cem Say , Abuzer Yakaryilmaz