Q. What type of actions are listed under the 'transactions' node in a JSD diagram?

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Q. What is the primary purpose of JSD diagrams in dialog design?

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Q. What is the significance of the decorations on the boxes in a JSD diagram?

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Q. Which formal notation has been widely used to describe programming language syntax and can also be applied to dialog notation?

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Q. What is the purpose of using formal grammars in dialog notation?

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Q. Which notation is suitable for producing crude prototypes and is based on BNF?

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Q. What is the main difference between BNF and regular expressions in terms of representing user actions?

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Q. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of regular expressions?

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Q. What is the basic unit considered in text editors and lexical analyzers when using regular expressions?

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Q. Which notation is known for using connectives to denote sequence and choice?

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Q. Which of the following is a drawback of using regular expressions for dialog design?

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Q. Which notation is particularly suitable for representing named non-terminals and recursive definitions?

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Q. What is the primary difference between regular expressions in text editors and those used in dialog design?

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Q. In regular expressions, what does the Kleene star operator (*) represent?

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Q. How does BNF represent iteration in comparison to regular expressions?

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Q. Which of the following cannot be represented using regular expressions with the Kleene star operator?

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Q. What characteristic makes regular expressions and BNF suitable for low-level dialog descriptions?

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Q. What is a potential limitation of using regular expressions as a dialog notation?

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Q. What advantage is associated with using existing tools for executing BNF and regular expressions?

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Q. What level of dialog is often the focus when using regular expressions as a notation?

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