Translation Into Definite Clauses
DCG notation is just syntactic sugar for normal definite clauses in Prolog. For example, the previous example could be translated into the following:
sentence(S1,S3) :- noun_phrase(S1,S2), verb_phrase(S2,S3). noun_phrase(S1,S3) :- det(S1,S2), noun(S2,S3). verb_phrase(S1,S3) :- verb(S1,S2), noun_phrase(S2,S3). det(, X). det(, X). noun(, X). noun(, X). verb(, X).Read more about this topic: Definite Clause Grammar
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