On the size of parsers and LR(k)-grammar
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Hing Leung; Detlef Wotschke
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Article
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2000
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Elsevier Science
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English
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In this paper, we consider two tradeo results regarding the economy of description in parsing. One result is on the tradeo between the size of a parser and its ability to detect an error early. The other result is on the tradeo between the size of an LR(k)-grammar and the length k of the lookahead.