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Some Combinatorial Operators in Language Theory
Multitildes are regular operators that were introduced by Caron et al. in
order to increase the number of Glushkov automata. In this paper, we study the
family of the multitilde operators from an algebraic point of view using the
notion of operad. This leads to a combinatorial description of already known
results as well as new results on compositions, actions and enumerations.Comment: 21 page
Bottom Up Quotients and Residuals for Tree Languages
In this paper, we extend the notion of tree language quotients to bottom-up
quotients. Instead of computing the residual of a tree language from top to
bottom and producing a list of tree languages, we show how to compute a set of
k-ary trees, where k is an arbitrary integer. We define the quotient formula
for different combinations of tree languages: union, symbol products,
compositions, iterated symbol products and iterated composition. These
computations lead to the definition of the bottom-up quotient tree automaton,
that turns out to be the minimal deterministic tree automaton associated with a
regular tree language in the case of the 0-ary trees