 Weak Chomsky normal form (source code)

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= Weak Chomsky normal form
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Weak Chomsky normal form additionally permits ternary productions $A\to BCD$. Compressing a two-step pattern $A\to BE$, $E\to CD$ into $A\to BCD$ preserves its generated yields whenever the intermediate variable has no other role, and saves one derivation step each time the pattern is used.

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