Output string languages of compositions of deterministic macro tree transducers

  • Authors:
  • Joost Engelfriet;Sebastian Maneth

  • Affiliations:
  • Leiden University, LIACS, P.O. Box 9512, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands;Leiden University, LIACS, P.O. Box 9512, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computer and System Sciences
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The composition of total deterministic macro tree transducers gives rise to a proper hierarchy with respect to their output string languages (these are the languages obtained by taking the yields of the output trees). There is a language not in this hierarchy which can be generated by a (quite restricted) nondeterministic string transducer, namely, a two-way generalized sequential machine. Similar results hold for attributed tree transducers, for controlled EDTOL systems, and for YIELD mappings (which proves properness of the IO-hierarchy). Witnesses for the properness of the macro tree transducer hierarchy can already be found in the latter three hierarchies.