Approximating grammar probabilities: solution of a conjecture

  • Authors:
  • R. Chaudhuri;A. N. V. Rao

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI;Department of Mathematics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

  • Venue:
  • Journal of the ACM (JACM)
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

It is proved that the production probabilities of a probabilistic context-free grammar may be obtained as the limit of the estimates inferred from an increasing sequence of randomly drawn samples from the language generated by the grammar.