A Descriptive Approach to Language-Theoretic Complexity

by James Rogers

Book Overview

Early formal specifications of natural language syntax were quite closely connected to the notion of abstract machines for computing them. More recently, this approach has been superseded by one in which languages are specified in terms of systems of constraints on the structure of their sentences. This has made complexity results difficult to obtain. This book introduces a way of obtaining such results. It presents a natural and quite general means...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575861364
• ISBN13: 9781575861364
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
• Length: 216 Pages