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From: tfra@ur-tut.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer)
Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.ai
Subject: Re: English grammar (was Re: In layman's terms.)
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Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 09:09:48 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  1 09:09:48 1987
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Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
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Keywords: English, Backus-Naur Form, syntax.
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[Et tu, line-eater?]

Actually, there is a (one-paragraph) discussion comparing BNF versus Transition
Networks in the latest issue of AI Magazine (Volume 8, Number 1).  It is part
of the article "YANLI: A Powerful Natural Language Front-End Tool" by
John C. Glasgow II.  It even includes an example of a BNF and a Transition
Network representation of the same grammar fragment.