Using Acceptors as Transducers

  • Authors:
  • Matti Nykänen

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • WIA '98 Revised Papers from the Third International Workshop on Automata Implementation
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

We wish to use a given nondeterministic two-way multitape acceptor as a transducer by supplying the contents for only some of its input tapes, and asking it to generate the missing contents for the other tapes. We provide here an algorithm for determining beforehand whether this transduction always results in a finite set of answers or not. We also develop an algorithm for evaluating these finite answers whenever the previous algorithm indicated their existence. Our algorithms can also be used for speeding up the simulation of these acceptors even when not used as transducers.