The term “slightly context-sensitive grammar” was coined by Joshi (1985). The goal was to characterize formal grammars adequate to describe a natural language. They should be more powerful than context-free grammar (which Huybregt [1984] and Schieber [1985] showed insufficiency for natural language), but less powerful than general context-sensitive grammars (which, among other disadvantages, cannot be analyzed in polynomial time).
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