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STACS
2001
Springer
14 years 4 days ago
A Logical Approach to Decidability of Hierarchies of Regular Star-Free Languages
We propose a new, logical, approach to the decidability problem for the Straubing and Brzozowski hierarchies based on the preservation theorems from model theory, on a theorem of ...
Victor L. Selivanov
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Tree Languages Defined in First-Order Logic with One Quantifier Alternation
We study tree languages that can be defined in 2. These are tree languages definable by a first-order formula whose quantifier prefix is , and simultaneously by a first-order for...
Mikolaj Bojanczyk, Luc Segoufin
COGSCI
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition: A Probabilistic Perspective
Natural language is full of patterns that appear to fit with general linguistic rules but are ungrammatical. There has been much debate over how children acquire these ‘‘ling...
Anne S. Hsu, Nick Chater
PLANX
2007
13 years 9 months ago
XML Transformation Language Based on Monadic Second Order Logic
Although monadic second-order logic (MSO) has been a foundation of XML queries, little work has attempted to take MSO formulae themselves as a programming construct. Indeed, MSO f...
Kazuhiro Inaba, Haruo Hosoya
ICFP
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Logical types for untyped languages
Programmers reason about their programs using a wide variety of formal and informal methods. Programmers in untyped languages such as Scheme or Erlang are able to use any such met...
Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Matthias Felleisen