Why Chomsky Normal Form: A Pedagogical Note

Authors

Olga Kosheleva, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

5-1-2021

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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-21-47

Abstract

To simplify the design of compilers, Noam Chomsky proposed to first transform a description of a programming language -- which is usually given in the form of a context-free grammar -- into a simplified "normal" form. A natural question is: why this specific normal form? In this paper, we provide an answer to this question.