2 Chomsky Normal Form (CNF)

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[Verse 1]
When grammars get tangled, productions run wild
A → BC or A → a, keep the rules compiled
Strip away the chaos, make the structure clean
Chomsky Normal Form builds the parsing machine

[Chorus]
Two choices only, never break the law
Binary splits or terminals raw
CNF will guide you, CYK can parse
Two choices only, that's the golden clause

[Verse 2]
Start symbol gets epsilon if your language needs empty
Every other rule follows patterns so plenty
Left side single variable, right side pairs or one
Convert any context-free, the battle can be won

[Chorus]
Two choices only, never break the law
Binary splits or terminals raw
CNF will guide you, CYK can parse
Two choices only, that's the golden clause

[Bridge]
Eliminate the unit rules
Chain productions breaking through
Introduce new variables
Split the long ones into two
Bottom-up will thank you
When the table fills complete
Normal form enables
Dynamic programming feat

[Verse 3]
From messy grammar chaos to algorithmic grace
CYK needs this structure to efficiently trace
Each substring gets tested through the triangle climb
Polynomial parsing in cubic time

[Chorus]
Two choices only, never break the law
Binary splits or terminals raw
CNF will guide you, CYK can parse
Two choices only, that's the golden clause

[Outro]
Chomsky gave us order
From the context-free domain
Normal form's the gateway
To the parsing algorithm reign

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