• DocumentCode
    1115696
  • Title

    Determination of Probabilistic Grammars for Functionally Specified Probability-Measure Languages

  • Author

    Thompson, Richard A.

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Electrical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1974
  • fDate
    6/1/1974 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    603
  • Lastpage
    614
  • Abstract
    The nature of probability-measure languages (pm-languages) has been investigated [2], [3], [7], [8], in particular, those languages generated by given probabilistic grammars (p-grammars). However, the determination of a p-grammar that can generate some given language has been an open question. Since languages are infinite in general, the specification of a pm-language is vague. In this paper, it is assumed that some finite representation exists for the set of words (this can be a nonprobabilistic grammar) and that the probability of each word in the language is computable by some word function whose domain is the language.
  • Keywords
    Abstract languages, computability, grammar transformations, probabilistic languages, stochastic automata.; Automata; Helium; Stochastic processes; Abstract languages, computability, grammar transformations, probabilistic languages, stochastic automata.;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computers, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9340
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/T-C.1974.224001
  • Filename
    1672594