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Permutation phrases with LR parsing

A permutation phrase is an extension to the standard (E)BNF context free grammar definitions: a permutation phrase $\{ A_1, \dots, A_n \}$ contains $n$ productions (or equivalently, nonterminals) $A_1$...
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Can abstract syntax trees be unparsed in subexponential time?

Abstract problem description The way I see it, unparsing means to create a token stream from an AST, which when parsed again produces an equal AST, i.e. ...
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CFG parsing using $o(n^2)$ space

There are a multitude of algorithms that can parse a context-free grammar in $O(n^3)$ time. Using matrix multiplication, one can even go asymptotically faster than that. However, all algorithms for ...