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Record 1 1986-12-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Grammar
DEF

A grammar which can produce a limited number of sentences. Such a simple grammar is not adequate for dealing with natural languages, since all natural languages can produce an infinite number of sentences.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Grammaire
CONT

[Chomsky] classe en fonction de leur efficacité descriptive trois classes de systèmes, [le moins efficace étant] ce qu'on peut appeler grammaire de Kleene (grammaire à états finis); on peut les dériver du modèle de communication de Shannon. Leur utilisation était préconisée par Hockett (...).

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