Three Models for the Description of Language.

Chomsky, N. (1956). Three Models for the Description of Language. IRE Transactions on Information Theory, 2(3), 113-124.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1956

Volume

2

Issue

3

Pages

113-124

DOI

10.1109/tit.1956.1056813

DOI registrant

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/TIT.1956.1056813

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Domain-specific

• Context-Free Grammar
  • If a sentential form contains \(A\), that occurrence can be rewritten using the rule regardless of its left or right neighbors.
• Formal Grammar
  • Other grammar families state constraints or model-theoretic satisfaction conditions rather than presenting the same rewrite sequence, but they preserve the identity-bearing relation: explicit formal primitives and rules determine admissible form.
• Formal Language
  • Chomsky’s hierarchy organized grammatical restrictions and the language families they generate.
• Phrase structure rules
  • The analysis does not merely label the sentence ambiguous; it exhibits the alternative rule applications and identifies which grammar constraint would block either parse.

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