LEAVING ASIDE THE MATTERS OF RULE FORMAT AND WORD POSITIONS IN THE...

5. Leaving aside the matters of rule format and

word positions in the sentence, search distances, etc.

input data, two further questions can be raised con-

cerning the simplicity that is claimed to result from

the separation of grammar and algorithm. These ques-

Received July 15, 1965

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