@inproceedings{nederhof-1997-regular,
    title = "Regular Approximations of {CFL}s: A Grammatical View",
    author = "Nederhof, Mark-Jan",
    editor = "Nijholt, Anton  and
      Berwick, Robert C.  and
      Bunt, Harry C.  and
      Carpenter, Bob  and
      Hajicova, Eva  and
      Johnson, Mark  and
      Joshi, Aravind  and
      Kaplan, Ronald  and
      Kay, Martin  and
      Lang, Bernard  and
      Lavie, Alon  and
      Nagao, Makoto  and
      Steedman, Mark  and
      Tomita, Masaru  and
      Vijay-Shanker, K.  and
      Weir, David  and
      Wittenburg, Kent  and
      Wiren, Mats",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies",
    month = sep # " 17-20",
    year = "1997",
    address = "Boston/Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/1997.iwpt-1.19/",
    pages = "159--170",
    abstract = "We show that for each context-free grammar a new grammar can be constructed that generates a regular language. This construction differs from existing methods of approximation in that use of a pushdown automaton is avoided . This allows better insight into how the generated language is affected. The new method is also more attractive from a computational viewpoint."
}