Reduction Techniques for Acyclic Cover Transducers

  • Authors:
  • Jean-Marc Champarnaud;Jacques Farré;Franck Guingne

  • Affiliations:
  • (Correspd.) Laboratoire LITIS, Université de Rouen, France. jean-marc.champarnaud@univ-rouen.fr;Laboratoire I3S, Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis & CNRS, France. Jacques.Farre@unice.fr;Laboratoire I3S, Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis & CNRS, France. Franck.Guingne@i3s.unice.fr

  • Venue:
  • Fundamenta Informaticae
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Finite languages and finite subsequential functions can be represented by possibly cyclic finite machines, respectively called cover automata and cover transducers. Reduced cover machines can have fewer states than the corresponding minimal machines, yielding a compact representation for lexicons or dictionaries. We present here a new algorithm for reducing the number of states of an acyclic transducer.