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Meaning of Chomsky Normal Form | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. A context-free grammar in which the right hand side of any production rule consists of either one terminal symbol or two non-terminal symbols.
  2. A context-free grammar in which the right hand side of any production rule consists of either one terminal symbol or two non-terminal symbols (neither of which is the start symbol) or the epsilon (i.e. null string) symbol, but only if the left hand side is the start symbol. (Note: this is the full-fledged version, whereas the previous definition may be said to be defining Chomsky reduced form.)

Examples

“Any ε-free Context Free Grammar can be converted (through an algorithm) into one in Chomsky Normal Form, and there is an algorithm that can parse formulas in the language of such a grammar in polynomial time; it is called the CYK algorithm.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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