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context-free
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context-free - Said of a grammar where the syntax of each constituent is independent of the symbols occuring before and after it in a sentence. Parsers for such grammars are simpler than those for context-dependent grammars because the parser need only know the current symbol.


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With only partial perception of the nondeterministic mechanism, students may choose a nondeterministic approach, but while they may be reasonably successful in regular languages, this may not be the case for context-free languages which induce more complicated automata.
It was attractive, says Pullum, because "a context-free language can always be handled fairly efficiently.
 
 
 
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