On the Covering and Reduction Problems for Context-Free Grammars

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On the Covering and Reduction Problems for Context-Free Grammars

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Volume 19 , Issue 4 (October 1972) table of contents

Pages: 675 - 698

Year of Publication: 1972

ISSN:0004-5411

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James N. Gray	IBM Thomas J. Watson research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY and University of California, Berkeley, California
Michael A. Harrison	Department of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley, California

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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