Can someone please tell me what a finite state transducer is? I have read the Wikipedia article and don’t understand a thing. Answer A finite state transducer (FST) is a finite state automaton (FSA, FA) which produces output as well as reading input, which means it is useful for parsing (while a “bare” FSA can … Read more
We need to implement a simple state machine in C. Is a standard switch statement the best way to go? We have a current state (state) and a trigger for the transition. switch(state) { case STATE_1: state = DoState1(transition); break; case STATE_2: state = DoState2(transition); break; } … DoState2(int transition) { // Do State Work … Read more
This question already has answers here: Regular expression to match balanced parentheses (21 answers) Closed 2 years ago. Is it possible to write a regular expression that matches a nested pattern that occurs an unknown number of times? For example, can a regular expression match an opening and closing brace when there are an unknown … Read more
I am new to automata. And learning to find concatenation of two FAs. But this one has confused me I know how to do concatenation but I am confused that in FA 1, what does x1 means? Is it mean final state or does it mean both initial and final state because it is on … Read more
i have a theoretical questions, and was wondering if you could help me with it so i could understand the material better. 1)suppose we have some language L over Σ, can we know if L is regular if all of it equivalence classes of relation RL is finite? 2)and what about L*? is it finite? … Read more
A finite automaton (FA), A, may accept or reject its own encoding, {A}. A machine, M, can be written that accepts {A} iff A rejects {A}. Turing gave a famous proof that M is not an FA. The proof relies on a contradiction that occurs when one assumes M is an FA and then runs … Read more
I have given this question as home assignment. I tried a lot to solve it but couldn’t found any solution. Please help Thanks in Advance! Answer Hint, the grammar S→aSc∣b generates the language {anbcn:n≥0}. Can you you adapt this? Do you understand why it generates that language? AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : Junaid … Read more
Consider the following: A weak TM is a TM with finite tape in size k which can only read its input values. note: the tape size does not include the input length. I need to determine whether if the weak model is equivalent to a regular TM, or to explain why not and to show … Read more
Is there any possible general algorithm for constructing a DFA such that it accepts any string, which has a given sub-string in the suffix(end) for any given language. The algorithm should directly construct the DFA transitions, and not create an NFA first and then convert it to a DFA. In other words, the algorithm accepts … Read more
I want to define the language of this FSA with a regular expression. I have learned that by state-elimination, I would be able to find a regular expression. But there are already some epsilon transitions in this FSA. My question is: Should I first follow the epsilon-removal construction, and then do state elimination? Or can … Read more
