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Normal Form

The document discusses normal forms in context-free grammars (CFG), specifically Chomsky Normal Form (CNF), which simplifies CFGs by standardizing productions. It outlines the processes of eliminating useless symbols, ε-productions, and unit productions to achieve CNF. Several examples illustrate the transformation of grammars into CNF and the elimination of undesired productions.

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Normal Form

The document discusses normal forms in context-free grammars (CFG), specifically Chomsky Normal Form (CNF), which simplifies CFGs by standardizing productions. It outlines the processes of eliminating useless symbols, ε-productions, and unit productions to achieve CNF. Several examples illustrate the transformation of grammars into CNF and the elimination of undesired productions.

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NORMAL FORM

-CNF
-GNF
Normal Forms:
Ambiguity is one undesirable property of a CFG that we
might wish to eliminate.
The ways of improving a grammar without changing the
resultant language.

First by eliminating certain types of productions.

Then by standardizing the productions, so that they all have


a certain “Normal form”.

1) Eliminate the production with awkward to write


2) Standardizing the production
Chomsky Normal Form:
When working with CFG, it is often convenient to have them in
simplified form. One of the simplest and most useful forms is called
the CNF.

Def:
A CFG is in CNF if every rule is of the form
NT string of exactly 2 NT
NTone terminal

Eg:
ABC
Aa
Where a is any terminal and A,B and C are any variable except that B
and C may not be the start variable.
In addition we permit the rule Sε , where S is the start variable.
CNF:
• We eliminate useless symbols. Those variables or terminals that
do not appears in any derivation of a terminal string from the start
symbol.
• We must eliminate ε-productions, those of the form X ε for
some variable X.
• We must eliminate unit production, those of the form XY for
variables x and Y.

Eliminating Useless Symbols:


I. Identified non-generating symbols in given CFG and
eliminate those productions which contains non-
generating symbols.
II. Identify non-reachable symbols in grammar and
eliminate those productions which contain non-
reachable symbols.
Ex:1
G=( { S,A,B}, {a,b}, P, S) where S is the start symbol and P is,
SbA/aB
AbAA/aS/a
BaBB/bS/b

Solu:
First production we have to replace terminal ‘b’ by a NT say
Cb and ‘a’ by Ca hence grammar becomes
S CbA/ CaB
A CbAA/ CaS/a
Ca a
Cbb
B CaBB/ CbS/b
First Production in CNF
S CbA/ CaB
Ca a
Cbb
Production in CNF
Second production is not in CNF S CbA/ CaB
A CbAA/ CaS/a A CbD/ CaS/a
A CbD/ CaS/a B CaE/ CbS/b
DAA Ca a
Cbb
Third production is not in CNF DAA
B CaBB/ CbS/b EBB
B CaE/ CbS/b
EBB
Ex:2
S1A/0B
A1AA/0S/0
B0BB/1
Solu:
SC1A/C0B
AC1Ca/ C0S/0
C11
C00
Ca AA
Cb BB
Ex:3
Sa
Sb
SCSS

Solu:
Sa
Sb
SCD
DSS
Ex:4
SabSb/a/aAb
Step 3
AbS/aAAb SCD/a/XaBb
Solu: AXbS/BaBb
SabSb/a/aBb BaXaA
AbS/BaBb
BbAXb
BaaA
BbAb Cab
DSXb
Step:2 Xaa
SCD/a/aBb Xbb
AbS/ BaBb
BaaA
BbAb
Cab
DSb
Ex:5 Step:2
SbA/aB SCbA/CaB
AbAA/aS/a
ADA/CaS/a
BaBB/bS/b
BEB/CbS/b
Solu: Cbb
SCbA/CaB Caa
ACbAA/CaS/a DCbA
BCaBB/CbS/b ECaB
Cbb
Caa
To Eliminate ε-Production:
To eliminate ε-Productions from a grammar G, we use the following
techniques

If A ε is a production to be eliminated then we look for all


productions, whose right side contains A, and replace each
occurrence of A in each of these productions to obtain the non ε -
productions to be added to the grammar to keep the language
generated the same.
Eg:
Consider the following grammar
SaA
Ab/ ε

Solu:
SaA
Sa
Ab
Ex:2
SABAC
AaA/ ε
BbB/ ε
Cc

List of production whose right side contain A,


SABAC
AaA
Therefore
SABC/BAC/BC
Aa
Add these productions to the grammar and eliminate A ε
to obtain following grammar
SABAC/ABC/BAC/BC
AaA/a
BbB/ ε
Cc
Now Eliminate Bε
SAAC/AC/C
Bb
Add these productions to the grammar and eliminate Bε from the
grammar to obtain

SABAC/BAC/ABC/BC/AAC/AC/C
AaA/a
BbB/b
Cc
Exercise:3
SAB Eliminate Bε
AaAA/ε SAB/B
BbBB/ε BbBB
Solu:
It derives
Eliminate Aε
SAB SA
AaAA BbB/b
The production derives
SB Therefore
AaA/a SAB/B/A
AaAA/aA/a
Therefore
SAB/B BbBB/bB/b
AaAA/aA/a
BbBB/ε
Removal of UNIT Production:
A production of the form
NT one NT
i.e, production of the form AB is called unit production
Algorithm:
Removal of unit productions
While (there exist a unit production, AB)
{
Select a unit production AB, such that there exists a production
Bα , where α is a terminal.

For(every non-unit production B α)

Add production A α to the grammar

Eliminate AB from the grammar


}
Ex:
Consider CFG
SAB
Aa
BC/b
CD
DE
Ea
Remove the unit production
Solu:
Consider 3 Unit productions
BC, CD, DE

Now to remove unit production BC , we see if there exists a


production whose left side has ‘C’ and right side contains a terminal
(i.e, Ca), but there is no such productions in G.
Similar things holds for production CD
Now, we try to remove unit production DE, because there is a
production Ea
Therefore Eliminate DE and introduce Da, grammar becomes
SAB
Aa
BC/b
CD
Da
Ea

Now we can remove CD by using Da, we get


SAB
Aa
BC/b
Ca
Da
Ea
Similarly , we can remove BC by using Ca, we obtain
SAB
Aa
Ba/b
Ca
Da
Ea

Now it can be easily seen that productions Ca, Da, Ea are useless
because if we start deriving from S, these productions will never be
used.
Hence eliminating them gives,
SAB
Aa
Ba/b
Which is completely reduced grammar

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