This is one of the topic from Theory of computation.

1. Simplifies form and Normal form

2. Simplifies form

3. Context Free Grammar (CFG)
• A context free grammar is a 4-tuple G=(V, ,S,P)Ʃ
where
V & are disjoint finite setƩ
S is an element of V and
P is a finite set formulas of the form A → α
V → Non terminal or variable
Ʃ → terminal symbols
S → start symbol
P → production rule or grammar rules

4. Context Free Grammar (CFG)
Application
• CFG are extensively used to specify the syntax of programming
language.
• CFG is used to develop parser
Definition: Context Free Language
• Language generated by CFG is called context free language
• Let G= (V, , S, P) be a CFG. The Language generated by G isƩ
L(G):{x */S G* x}∈ Ʃ ⟹
• A language L is a context free Language(CFL) if there is a CFG G
so that L=L(G)

5. Simplified form & Normal forms
• In this section we discuss some slight more straight
forward ways of improving a grammer without
changing the resulting language.
1)eliminating certain types of productions that may
be awkward to work to work.
2)standardizing the productions so that they all have
a certaion normal form.

6. Simplifies form
• In this simplifies form there is three type
1) Eliminating Null able Variable(Empty Production Removal)
2) Eliminating Unit Production(Unit production removal)
3) Eliminating Useless Productions(Removing Useless)

7. Eliminating Null able Variable
(Empty Production Removal)
• The productions of context-free grammars can be coerced
into a variety of forms without affecting the expressive power
of the grammars.
• If the empty string does not belong to a language, then there
is a way to eliminate the productions of the form A → ^ from
the grammar.
• If the empty string belongs to a language, then we can
eliminate ^ from all productions save for the single
production S → ^ . In this case we can also eliminate any
occurrences of S from the right-hand side of productions

8. Eliminating Null able Variable
(Empty Production Removal)
• a nullable variable in a CFG G=(V, ,S,P) is defined as followsƩ
1) Any variable A for which P contains A → is nullable˄
2) if P contain production A → B1B2…..Bn
where B1B2…Bn are nullable variable, then A is nullable.
3) No other variable in V are nullable.
• Example:
S → aX/Yb
X → S/˄
Y → bY/b
Ans:
S → aX/Yb/a
X → S
Y → bY/b

9. Eliminating Unit Production
(Unit production removal)

10. Eliminating Unit Production
(Unit production removal)

11. Eliminating Unit Production
(Unit production removal)
• Example:
S → Aa/B
A → a/bc/B
B → A/bB
Ans:
Unit production are S → B, A → B and B → A
S → Aa/A/bb S → Aa/a/bc/bb
A → a/bc/B A → a/bc/A/bb
A → a/bc/bb B → A/bb
B → A/bb B → a/bc/bb
So CFG after removing unit production is
S → Aa/a/bc/bb
A → a/bc/bb
B → a/bc/bb

12. Normal forms

13. definition

14. Theorem

15. Example of CFG Conversion

16. Removing Rules

17. Removing unit rule

18. More unit rules

19. Converting remaining rules

20. Presentation Outline
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• Greibach Normal Form

21. Greibach Normal Form
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A → αX
A context free grammar is said to be in
Greibach Normal Form if all productions
are in the following form:
• A is a non terminal symbols
• α is a terminal symbol
• X is a sequence of non terminal symbols.
It may be empty.

22. Step1:
If the start symbol S occurs on some right side, create a
new start symbol S’ and a new production S’ → S.
Step 2:
Remove Null productions. (Using the Null production
removal algorithm discussed earlier)
Step 3:
Remove unit productions. (Using the Unit production
removal algorithm discussed earlier)
Step 4:
Remove all direct and indirect left-recursion.
Step 5:
Do proper substitutions of productions to convert it into
the proper form of GNF.
Algorithm to Convert a CFG into Greibach Normal Form
Greibach Normal Form

23. Greibach Normal Form
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Example:
S → XA | BB
B → b | SB
X → b
A → a
S = A1
X = A2
A = A3
B = A4
A1 → A2A3 | A4A4
A4 → b | A1A4
A2 → b
A3 → a
CNF New Labels Updated CNF

24. Greibach Normal Form
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Example:
A1 → A2A3 | A4A4
A4 → b | A1A4
A2 → b
A3 → a
First Step
Xk is a string of zero
or more variables
Ai → AjXk j > iAi → AjXk j > i
A4 → A1A4

25. Greibach Normal Form
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Example:
A1 → A2A3 | A4A4
A4 → b | A1A4
A2 → b
A3 → a
A4 → A1A4
A4 → A2A3A4 | A4A4A4 | b
A4 → bA3A4 | A4A4A4 | b
First Step
Ai → AjXk j > iAi → AjXk j > i

26. Greibach Normal Form
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Example:
Second Step
Eliminate
Left Recursions
Eliminate
Left Recursions
A1 → A2A3 | A4A4
A4 → bA3A4 | A4A4A4 | b
A2 → b
A3 → a
A4 → A4A4A4

27. Greibach Normal Form
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Example:
Second Step
Eliminate
Left
Recursions
Eliminate
Left
Recursions
A1 → A2A3 | A4A4
A4 → bA3A4 | A4A4A4 | b
A2 → b
A3 → a
A4 → bA3A4 | b | bA3A4Z| bZ
Z → A4A4 | A4A4Z

28. Greibach Normal Form
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Example:
A1 → A2A3 | A4A4
A4 → bA3A4 | b | bA3A4Z | bZ
Z → A4A4 | A4A4 Z
A2 → b
A3 → a
A → αXA → αX
GNF

29. Greibach Normal Form
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Example:
A1 → A2A3 | A4A4
A4 → bA3A4 | b | bA3A4Z | bZ
Z → A4A4 | A4A4 Z
A2 → b
A3 → a
Z → bA3A4A4 | bA4 | bA3A4ZA4 | bZA4 | bA3A4A4 | bA4 | bA3A4ZA4 | bZA4
A1 → bA3 | bA3A4A4 | bA4 | bA3A4ZA4 | bZA4

30. Greibach Normal Form
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Example:
A1 → bA3 |bA3A4A4 | bA4 | bA3A4ZA4 | bZA4
A4 → bA3A4 | b | bA3A4Z | bZ
Z → bA3A4A4 | bA4 | bA3A4ZA4 | bZA4 | bA3A4A4 | bA4 | bA3A4ZA4 | bZA4
A2 → b
A3 → a
Grammar in Greibach Normal Form

31. Thank You
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