regular language

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Noun

regular language (plural regular languages)

  1. (computer science) A formal language that can be expressed using a regular expression or finite-state machine.
    Synonym: rational language
    Hypernym: formal language
    • 2007, Dick Grune, Ceriel J.H. Jacobs, Parsing Techniques: A Practical Guide, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 152:
      There is an interesting way to get the negation (complement) of a regular language L defined by a FS automaton, provided the automaton is ε-free.
    • 2014, Brian MacWhinney, William O'Grady, The Handbook of Language Emergence, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 393:
      A regular language is one that can be generated by a regular grammar or finite-state automaton, the lowest level of the Chomsky hierarchy. It is well known that these grammars are inadequate to represent natural language syntax.

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