[Solved]: Grammatical characterization of deterministic context-free languages

Problem Detail: Deterministic context-free languages are commonly defined using an automaton concept, the (restricted, deterministic) pushdown automaton. To some that is confusing, as the name context-free refers to a grammar type. I seem to remember there exists a characterization of the DCF languages using grammars. In my recollection it used a complicated equivalence on non-terminals. Can anyone provide a pointer to that work?

Asked By : Hendrik Jan

Answered By : Raphael

Wikipedia actually gives you the model and points to [1] for reference: LR grammars are equivalent to DPDA.

  1. On the Translation of Languages from Left to Right by Donald Knuth (1965) [free download]
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