Dcg

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of definite clause grammar. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

    "The AGFL formalism for the syntactic description of Natural Languages has been developed by the Computer Science Department of the Radboud University of Nijmegen. It is a formalism in which large context free grammars can be described in a compact way. AGFLs belong to the family of two level grammars, along with attribute grammars and DCG's: a first, context-free level is augmented with set-valued features for expressing agreement between constituents."

  2. 2
    Initialism of discounted cumulative gain. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

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"The AGFL formalism for the syntactic description of Natural Languages has been developed by the Computer Science Department of the Radboud University of Nijmegen. It is a formalism in which large context free grammars can be described in a compact way. AGFLs belong to the family of two level grammars, along with attribute grammars and DCG's: a first, context-free level is augmented with set-valued features for expressing agreement between constituents."

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