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   Dear colleagues,

   Jan  Kort will introduce us to his work on the Grammar Deployment Kit,
   which  he  will  present  at LDTA next week in Grenoble. This is joint
   work with Ralf Laemmel.

   This announcement can be found at <http://www.cwi.nl/~pem>

                         The Grammar Deployment Kit

   Date:     4.04.02
   Time:    10:00
   Venue:   F013 (UvA)
   Speaker: Jan Kort
   Title:   The Grammar Deployment Kit

   Grammar   deployment  is  the  process  of  turning  a  given  grammar
   specification  into  a working parser. The Grammar Deployment Kit (for
   short,  GDK)  provides  tool  support  in  this  process based on firm
   grammar   engineering   methods.  We  are  mainly  interested  in  the
   deployment  of  grammars for software renovation tools, that is, tools
   for  software  re-  and reverse engineering. GDK is geared towards the
   Cobol  family  of  languages. We assume that grammar deployment starts
   from  an  initial grammar specification which is maybe still ambiguous
   or even incomplete. In practice, grammar deployment binds unaffordable
   human  resources  because  of  the  unavailability of suitable grammar
   specifications,  the  diversity  of  parsing technology as well as the
   limitations  of  the  technology,  integration  problems regarding the
   development  of  software  renovation  functionality,  and the lack of
   tools and adherence to firm methods for grammar engineering. GDK helps
   to  largely  automate  grammar  deployment  because  tool  support for
   grammar  adaptation  and  parser  generation  is  provided. We support
   different  parsing technologies, among them btyacc (that is, yacc with
   backtracking)  which  is  a  mainstream  technology  in the renovation
   context. GDK is free software.
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