Table 1

Results of mechanical proof procedure. Number of shift-reduce (SR) and reduce-reduce (RR) conflicts when feeding example grammars G1 to G8 into parser generator MSTA. A 0/0 entry indicates a successful proof of non-ambiguity. Note that for increasing k, the number of conflicts may remain constant or even grow before it goes down to 0/0.

Grammar
k
SR/RR conflicts

G1
1
24/12
G1
2
70/36
G1
3
195/99
G2
1
25/13
G2
2
59/37
G2
3
165/98
G3
1–3
4/0
G3
4
16/0
G3
5
0/0
G4
1
0/0
G5
1
0/0
G6
1
0/0
G7
1–6
5/0
G7
7
0/0
G8
1
0/0

Reeder et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2005 6:153   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-6-153