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The Computer Journal 1981 24(2):156-161; doi:10.1093/comjnl/24.2.156
© 1981 by British Computer Society
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Eliminating null rules in linear time*

M. A. Harrison1 § and A. Yehudai2 ¶

1 Computer Science Division, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, USA, 2 Division of Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, Tel-Aviv, Israel

We present a linear time algorithm for eliminating null rules in context free grammars. Until recently all algorithms given in the literature for this problem required exponential time.

Received December 1978. revised January 1980.

* Research supported by National Science Foundation Grants GJ-43332 and MCS74-07636-A01.

§ Computer Science Division, University of California at Berkeley

Division of Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, Tel-Aviv, Israel.


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