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Formal grammar

A formal grammar is a set of symbols and the production rules for rewriting some of them into every possible string of a formal language over an alphabet. A grammar does not describe the meaning of the strings—only their form.

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Analytic grammars

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Formal grammar

Nodes70
Edges69
Triples13
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.028571
Components1

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Formal grammar

Top relations

related to Other forms of generative grammars · 5
Formal grammar → Affix, Chomsky's, Many, Some, Tree-adjoining
related to Analytic grammars · 4
Formal grammar → An, Examples, Strictly, Though
is a · 2
Formal grammar → set of rules for rewriting strings, set of symbols and the production rules for rewriting some of them into every possible string of a formal language over an alphabet

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Important terminology

grammar language rules displaystyle formal context-free string grammars languages symbol strings set production start rule regular symbols form nonterminal generative

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Formal grammaris aset of symbols and the production rules for rewriting some of them into every possible string of a formal language over an alphabet0.90text
Formal grammaris aset of rules for rewriting strings0.90text
Earley's recogniserinstance ofby an algorithm0.80text
in a sub-cubic time by fast matrix multiplication algorithmsinstance ofby an algorithm0.80text
Formal grammarrelated to Analytic grammarsThough0.60section
Formal grammarrelated to Analytic grammarsStrictly0.60section
Formal grammarrelated to Analytic grammarsAn0.60section
Formal grammarrelated to Analytic grammarsExamples0.60section
Formal grammarrelated to Other forms of generative grammarsMany0.60section
Formal grammarrelated to Other forms of generative grammarsChomsky's0.60section
Formal grammarrelated to Other forms of generative grammarsSome0.60section
Formal grammarrelated to Other forms of generative grammarsTree-adjoining0.60section

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