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First, I got carried away with researching what a Dyck language is. I was damn certain that some geeks already released an online service for converting natural languages to Dyck. NO! There is none.

So I decided to write one.

Literature

  • There is an order between words of equal length. They transform using a special rule and all together make a tamari lattice. Amount of elements there is a Catalan number. ref
  • There are another objects that under some conditions also counted by Catalan numbers. Thus can be created a bijection between such objects. At this point we are going to consider Dyck path (not words, defined in the article) and we will build a bijection to binary trees ref. related question about the bijection, and some notes
  • Also noncrossing partitions can be ordered and hence similar to trees and paths. Phagocyte lattice ?
  • Some notation on how to transition from Dyck words to paths

According to the notes (from someone's howework (?)):

Each time you go up in path PP, draw the left son from the last vertex you drew in tree f(P)f(P). Each time you go down in path PP, go up one vertex in tree f(P)f(P) and draw the right son of that vertex.

And reverse:

Let TT be a binary tree. Start in the root of TT. If you can go down left in TT, do it and go up in your Dyck Path. If you can’t, then go up until you can go down right where you haven’t been before in TT and go down in the Dyck Path.

Maybe related about tree traversal

To my big surprise researchers are trying to use Large Language Models like GPT to predict word endings in the Dyck language. Found in Big Bench benchmark

predicting dyck words with GPT models

For some reason I looked into the bijection between binary trees and Dyck words. It's not a trivial thing I must say.

But how do we encode alphabet or words from English language as binary trees? Morse code?

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