A note on the complexity of constraint interaction: Locality conditions and minimalist grammars

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3492 LNAI, Issue , 2005, Pages 114-130

  Gärtner, Hans Martin ^a   Michaelis, Jens ^b  

^a ZAS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CONTEXT FREE LANGUAGES; CONTEXT SENSITIVE GRAMMARS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; SYNTACTICS;

CONTAINMENT-BASED LC; LOCALITY CONDITIONS (LC); MINIMALIST GRAMMARS (MG); SHORTEST MOVE CONDITION (SMC);

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS;

EID: 33745163967     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11422532_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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