Etymology

Chomsky hierarchy

Today it means: A containment hierarchy of classes of formal grammars. From least to most specialized, the classes are: recursively enumerable, context-sensitive, context-free, and regular. Full definition →

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Described by linguist Noam Chomsky in 1956.

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