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Chomsky hierarchy

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The Chomsky hierarchy.

Etymology

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Described by Noam Chomsky in 1956.

Noun

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Chomsky hierarchy (plural Chomsky hierarchies)

  1. (computer science, linguistics) A containment hierarchy of classes of formal grammars. From least to most specialized, the classes are: recursively enumerable, context-sensitive, context-free, and regular.

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