On some representations of context-free languages

Abstract

Context-free languages are widely used to describe the syntax of programming languages and natural languages. Usually, we describe a context-free language mathematically with the help of context-free grammar (for generation) or pushdown automata (for recognition). The purpose of this study is to describe some unconventional methods of description of context-free languages, namely a representation with the help of finite digraphs and with automata - generators of context-free languages. We will mainly focus on the mathematical models of these representations.