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[lojban] Re: gleki xisri'i

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Cyril Slobin <cyril@slobin.pp.ru> wrote:
>
> I believe that this one specific example *can* be correctly parsed by
> CFG. I'll try to write such CFG for you tonight. The problem here is
> that correct CFG is much longer than "traditional" one. And, even if
> the similar transformation for the whole Lojban grammar is possible,
> the result will be far too huge to be used in practice.

I agree. Indeed I don't see any reason for a complete CFG not to be
possible, but it will almost certainly require more than 2000 lines.
Orders of magnitude more, probably, as there are dozens of terminators
and handling each one will expand the grammar by some factor of, I
suspect, around 2.

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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