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Meaning of "context-free"

context-free (adjective): Refers to a grammar or language that can be generated by a context-free grammar, commonly used in computer science and linguistics
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  • (Of a grammar) which generates sentences in stages, in such a way that at any intermediate stage, any piece of the sentence is enough to determine the corresponding piece at the next stage; that is, the stagewise transformation at a point does not depend on the rest of the sentence
  • (Of a formal language) which can be decided by a pushdown automaton or a context-free grammar (sense 1)

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Not all context-free languages are deterministic.
The program of these processors is context-free.
Unambiguous context-free grammars can be nondeterministic.
We are going to need something like a context-free grammar to do it.
Context-free grammars specify programming language syntax.
Deciding if a given context-free grammar is ambiguous.
Context-free languages of countable words.
This language is not a context-free language.
Context-free languages are closed under the following operations.
Those that can are called context-free languages.
Deterministic context-free languages, recognized by deterministic pushdown automata.
Both example languages are known to be not context-free.
Determining if a context-free grammar generates all possible strings, or if it is ambiguous.
Closure properties of context-free languages.
A context-free grammar always produces just a finite number of utterances.

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Finding the language generated by a context-free grammar.
Context-free grammars do not take into account any additional information.
A finite state grammar is an example of a context-free grammar.
Our context-free grammar does not care about the line above it.
It can express the entire range of context-free grammars.
Every regular language is context-free because it can be described by a regular grammar.
Such rules have been proved to form a context-free grammar.
Every context-free grammar can be transformed into an equivalent nondeterministic pushdown automaton.
We have a case where sometimes a context-free language is regular.
Or perhaps there are some regular languages that are not context-free.
Matrix grammar is an extension of context-free grammar, and one instance of a controlled grammar.
We can represent grammars as finite state automata or context-free grammars.
Similarly, the restriction to context-free languages is tacitly understood from the context.
Non-deterministic pushdown automata are another formalism equivalent to context-free grammars.
They are the context-free languages that can be accepted by a deterministic pushdown automaton.
The following are some decidable problems about context-free grammars.
In a context-free grammar, this construct yields the classic dangling else ambiguity.
And let us say this blob is the set of context-free languages.
Similarly, the context-free languages are closed under homomorphisms and inverse homomorphisms.
This concept is not particularly tricky, but it does require a context-free grammar.
Those acronyms are all subsets of context-free languages or context-free grammars.
Syntax analyzers follow production rules defined by means of context-free grammar.
Can context-free grammars be used to do anything other than parsing a programming language?
The presently preferred parser was designed to operate with context-free grammar.
Be careful to keep your language in the context-free language category or something inside it.
Context-free grammars are generally sufficient for expressing the syntax of a programming language.
The class of head grammars is a subset of the linear context-free rewriting systems.
Also a context-free grammar for describing gestures and / or reference gestures is described.
Its initial stack symbol equals the axiom of the context-free grammar.
There is a need for impersonal, context-free communication and a high degree of cultural standardisation.
Thus ordered choice is not commutative, unlike unordered choice as in context-free grammars.
Context-free grammars are represented as a set of rules inspired from attempts to model natural languages.
Shamir was one of the discoverers of the pumping lemma for context-free languages.
Context-free languages are the theoretical basis for the syntax of most programming languages.
There are some cool things that we can do with context-free grammars.

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