Analyzing ambiguity of context-free grammars

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

Volumn 4783 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 214-225

  Brabrand, Claus ^a   Giegerich, Robert ^b   Møller, Anders ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

CFG ambiguity; Regular approximation; RNA analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTABILITY AND DECIDABILITY; CONTEXT FREE LANGUAGES; PROBLEM SOLVING; RNA;

CONTEXT-FREE GRAMMARS AMBIGUITY; REGULAR APPROXIMATION; RNA ANALYSIS;

CONTEXT FREE GRAMMARS;

EID: 38149029316     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-76336-9_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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