From: Vaughan Pratt <pratt@cs.stanford.edu>
To: Categories <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: categories and linguistic?
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 14:51:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1MnGw3-0004fn-6T@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
Charles Wells wrote:
> Linguists use the word "category" to mean what computer scientists would
> call a variable symbol in a context-sensitive grammar.
My corpus callosum must be having a denial of service. Since the
languages generated by context-sensitive languages coincide with those
accepted by linear-bounded automata, there must be some connection
between categories and linear-bounded automata. What is it?
Vaughan Pratt
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2009-09-13 21:51 Vaughan Pratt [this message]
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