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Random Generation for FinitelyAmbiguous Context-free Languages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 July 2002

Alberto Bertoni,
Massimiliano Goldwurm and
Massimo Santini
Alberto Bertoni
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Comelico 39/41, 20135 Milano, Italy; (bertoni@dsi.unimi.it)
Massimiliano Goldwurm
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Comelico 39/41, 20135 Milano, Italy; (goldwurm@dsi.unimi.it)
Massimo Santini
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali, Cognitive e Quantitative, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Giglioli Valle, 42100 Reggio Emilia, Italy; (msantini@unimo.it)
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Abstract

We prove that a word of length n from a finitely ambiguous context-free language can be generated at random under uniform distribution in O(n 2 log n) time by a probabilistic random access machine assuming a logarithmic cost criterion.We also show that the same problem can be solved in polynomial time for every language accepted by a polynomial time 1-NAuxPDAwith polynomially bounded ambiguity.

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RAIRO - Theoretical Informatics and Applications , Volume 35 , Issue 6: A tribute to Aldo de Luca , November 2001, pp. 499 - 512
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© EDP Sciences, 2001

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