Chomsky Normal Form is used by the CYK algorithm to determine if a string is accepted by a Context Free Grammar. Step 4) in the overall grammar "simplification" process is to convert the grammar to Chomsky Normal Form. Productions can be one of two formats A -> a or A -> BC The right side of the production is either exactly one terminal symbol or exactly two variables. The grammars must have the "simplification" steps 1), 2) and 3) out of the way, that is 1) No useless variables, 2) No nullable variables and 3) no unit productions. Step 4) of "simplification" is the following algorithm: 'length' refers to the number of variables plus terminal symbols on the right side of a production. Loop through the productions For each production with length greater than 1 do Replace each terminal symbol with a new variable and add a production new variable -> terminal symbol. Loop through the productions For each production with length grater than 2 do Replace two rightmost variables with a new variable and add a production new variable -> two rightmost variables. (Repeat - either on a production or loop until no replacements.) Now the grammar, as represented by the productions, is in Chomsky Normal Form. proceed with CYK. An optimization is possible but not required, for any two productions with the same right side, delete the second production and replace all occurrences of the second productions left variable with the left variable of the first production in all productions. Example grammar: G = (V, T, P, S) V={S,A} T={a,b} S=S S -> aAS S -> a A -> SbA A -> SS A -> ba First loop through productions (Check n>1) S -> aAS becomes S -> BAS (B is the next unused variable name) B -> a S -> a stays S -> a A -> SbA becomes A -> SCA (C is the next unused variable name) C -> b A -> SS stays A -> SS A -> ba becomes A -> DE D -> b E -> a Second loop through productions (Check n>2) S -> BAS becomes S -> BF (F is the next unused variable) F -> AS B -> a stays B -> a S -> a stays S -> a A -> SCA becomes A -> SG G -> CA C -> b stays C -> b A -> SS stays A -> SS A -> DE stays A -> DE D -> b stays D -> b E -> a stays E -> a Optimization is possible, B -> a, S -> a, E -> a can be replaced by the single production S -> a (just to keep 'S') and all occurrences of 'B' and 'E' get replaced by 'S'. Similarly D -> b can be deleted, keeping the C -> b production and substituting 'C' for 'D'. Giving the reduced Chomsky Normal Form: S -> SF F -> AS S -> a A -> CG G -> CA C -> b A -> SS A -> CS For a computer generated reduction, a different naming convention was chosen (to aid in debugging). First, a terminal symbol "a" was replaced the prefixing "T_", thus "a" becomes "T_a". Once a substitution is made, that substitution is remembered so that there will be at most |T| rules generated of the form T_a -> a When there are more that two variables on the right hand side of a production, the new production is named "C_" concatenated with the last two variables separated by an underscore. This provides an easy reduction if the same two variables are replaced more than once. The productions will be sorted and duplicates will sort together and can be detected and eliminated quickly. (In order to be completely safe, this algorithm requires that no underscores were used in the initial grammar.) after eliminate, sorted productions: A -> a B -> a S -> A B S -> a A S -> a S a S a S -> a S a a S -> a a S a S -> a a a Chomsky 1, replace terminal with variable Chomsky part 1, sorted productions: A -> a B -> a S -> A B S -> T_a A S -> T_a S T_a S T_a S -> T_a S T_a T_a S -> T_a T_a S T_a S -> T_a T_a T_a T_a -> a Chomsky 2, new production for each pair over two Chomsky Part 2 generated productions C_ST_a -> S T_a C_T_aS -> T_a S C_ST_a -> S T_a C_T_aT_a -> T_a T_a C_ST_a -> S T_a C_ST_a -> S T_a C_T_aS -> T_a S C_T_aT_a -> T_a T_a after Chomsky, sorted productions: A -> a B -> a C_ST_a -> S T_a C_T_aS -> T_a S C_T_aT_a -> T_a T_a S -> A B S -> T_a A S -> T_a C_ST_a S -> T_a C_T_aS S -> T_a C_T_aT_a T_a -> a after Chomsky, Variables: A B C_ST_a C_T_aS C_T_aT_a S T_a Terminals unchanged, S unchanged. This simple structure for the productions makes possible an efficient parser.
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Monday, 24 June 2013
Chomsky Normal Form
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