Subject: SEN1 Meeting next Thursday, Vadim Zaytsev
From: Bas Basten 
To: sen1-list 
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:13:57 +0200 (CEST)

Dear all,

At Thursday's SEN1 Meeting, Vadim will give the following talk on
grammar recovery:

Title: "Toward an Engineering Discipline for Grammar Recovery"

Abstract:
This (relatively) short presentation will report on recent
achievements and future insights in automating the process of grammar
extraction and recovery. Early grammar recovery projects like VU
Browsable Grammars [1] for languages like PLEX, COBOL, Ada and C# have
shown that this research area is very promising and its activities can
be at least semi-automated. However, later initiatives like SLPS
Grammar Zoo [2] of recovering grammars of Java, C, C++, Eiffel,
Modula, TESCOL and MediaWiki have uncovered more details and more
challenges that need to be overcome in order to develop stable
universal automated grammar extractors. This has led to development of
a prototype tool called Grammar Hunter that operates with grammar
definition dialects and performs stepwise extraction of a grammar that
will be ready to be transformed, adapted, corrected, converged, etc.
Grammar Hunter will become a part of Grammar Lab of Rascal.

[1] http://www.cs.vu.nl/grammarware/browsable/
[2] http://slps.sourceforge.net/zoo/

We start as usual at 10am in room L016. Hope to see you all there!

Cheers,
Bas