Definition
Mild context-sensitivity is defined in terms of sets of languages. A set of languages is mildly context-sensitive if and only if
- it contains all context-free languages,
- it admits limited cross-serial dependencies,
- all the languages are parsable in polynomial time, and
- all the languages have constant growth; this means that the distribution of string lengths should be linear rather than supralinear. This is often guaranteed by proving a pumping lemma for some class of mildly context-sensitive languages.
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