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 Formal grammar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An analytic grammar, in contrast, is a set of rules that assume an arbitrary string to be given as input, and which successively reduce or analyze that input string yielding a final boolean, "yes/no" result indicating whether or not the input string is a member of the language described by the grammar.
For example, for context-free grammars there are well-known algorithms to generate efficient LL parsers and LR parsers.
Affix grammars and attribute grammars allow rewrite rules to be augmented with semantic attributes and operations, useful both for increasing grammar expressiveness and for constructing practical language translation tools.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_grammar   (1540 words)

  
 Attribute grammar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In a practical way, an attribute grammar defines the information that will need to be in the abstract syntax tree in order to successfully perform semantic analysis.
When constructing a language translation tool, such as a compiler, an attribute grammar is the formal expression of the syntax-derived semantic checks associated with a grammar.
The strength of attribute grammars is that they can transport information from anywhere in the abstract syntax tree to anywhere else, in a controlled way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute_grammar   (314 words)

  
 Bibliography on Attribute Grammars
Attribute grammars for the heuristic translation of query languages.
Attribute grammars are a useful formalism for the specification of computations on structured terms.
The transformation engine of SIMON is an amalgamation of syntax-directed computation and content-oriented computation: the former is through higher-order (and related) extensions of attribute grammars, whereas the latter is done by externally defined programs and it is for computation not naturally amenable to the syntax-directed paradigm.
http://www-rocq.inria.fr/oscar/www/fnc2/AGabstract.html   (9103 words)

  
 Program Transformation Wiki / Attribute Grammar
Attribute grammars were introduced by DonaldKnuth in 1968 for the definition of the semantics of (programming) languages.
An attribute grammar is a specification that defines attributions of values to (abstract syntax) tree nodes.
Attribute grammars are mainly useful for program analysis
http://www.program-transformation.org/view/Transform/AttributeGrammar?rev=1.2   (82 words)

  
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This attribute is computed from the attributes of sub-expressions.
Evaluating Attributes - S attributed definitions are a very special case of attribute grammars - The most general method is to construct an ordering from the parse tree itself: Define a graph as follows.
For each attribute E.a to be computed add a node in the graph.
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~aiken/cs264/lectures/attribute-grammars   (2025 words)

  
 Speech Recognition Grammar Specification Version 1.0
Grammar authors should consider the possibility that a grammar will be used to interpret input in a non-speech recognition device.
A user agent is a grammar processor that accepts user input and matches that input against a grammar to produce a recognition result that represents the detected input.
The grammars are intended for use by speech recognizers and other grammar processors so that developers can specify the words and patterns of words to be listened for by a speech recognizer.
http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-grammar   (11104 words)

  
 Attribute grammar notes
Attribute grammars allow computation of attributes in the local sense.
Attribute grammars allow implicitly defined attributes to be associated with any rule (or non-leaf node in a parse tree).
Attribute grammars are slow w/o on-demand lazy eval / caching.
http://www.antlr.org/blog/attribute.grammar.notes.tml   (2186 words)

  
 Domain Specific Meta Langauges
Attribute coupled grammars of Ganzinger and Geirech [8] increase the modularity of attribute grammars by recognizing that the translation process is often broken into distinct phases mapping the source program through a series of intermediate representations until its final target language representation is generated.
Meta languages we give its solution in the form of an attribute grammar which uses three meta languages for defining attributes: a general purpose language similar to those in most attribute grammar systems, a macro language for defining the textual target code, and a simple language designed to specify an environment.
Attribute grammars [2,14] provide a convenient specification mechanism for defining language processing tools.
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~evw/Papers/como.html   (3763 words)

  
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X.a is how attributes are written, a is an attribute (value) of the grammar symbol X. Table 6.1 gives an attribute grammar for simple numbers, where the attribute being represented is the value of the number.
The difference is that 6.6 is referring to the parse tree or a derivation sequence associated with the grammar whereas 6.7 is referring to the grammar rules.
Note that + in the grammar is playing a dual role, one of grammar symbol and one of addition of values.
http://www.unf.edu/public/cop4620/ree/Notes/ch6.txt   (881 words)

  
 A brief introduction to definite clause grammars and definite clause translation grammars
Informally, attribute grammars are sometimes described as context-free grammars with parameters on the non-terminals.
An attribute grammar is a context-free grammar in which the nodes of the parse tree carry attributes (annotations in the form of name-value pairs).
DCTGs closely resemble attribute grammars as described by [Knuth 1968] and later writers and it is a bit easier to handle complex or voluminous attribute value functions in DCTGs than in DCGs.
http://www.w3.org/People/cmsmcq/2004/lgintro.html   (4983 words)

  
 RAGS - Survey of Grammar Models
The only significance of the initial Christiansen grammar is that it becomes the language attribute of the root node of the parse tree.
Observe that each language attribute value, and therefore each grammar adaptation, in a Christiansen grammar is localized to a particular branch of the parse tree.
There is a remarkably close analogy between Chomsky grammars and Turing machines, if the latter are considered, not as a computational model per se, but as a grammar model.
http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~jshutt/thesis/survey.html   (1720 words)

  
 WhyAttributeGrammarsMatter - TmrWiki
Attribute grammars specify a language's semantics by 'decorating' a context free grammar with those attributes you are interested in.
Synthesized attributes are tupled and returned as the result of the computation.
The attribute grammar determines a computation over some data structure; the semantic functions correspond to the actual Haskell functions that perform the computation.
http://www.haskell.org/tmrwiki/WhyAttributeGrammarsMatter   (2817 words)

  
 Green Hat Journal: Attribute Grammar
The last problem is computing attributes that depend on both inherited and synthesized attributes.
The attributes are not stored in the tree, they are recomputed every time you need them.
But by adding "hash consing" and memoization, an inefficient pure functional attribute grammar becomes an efficient, incremental implementation.
http://rover.cs.northwestern.edu/~surana/blog/past/000224.html   (309 words)

  
 Attribute Grammars
An attribute grammar uses the context free grammar of a program as the framework on which to build the grammar.
An attribute grammar is a formal structure for recognizing the context sensitive part of a programming language.
A value in an attribute cannot be referenced before it is computed.
http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~rweaver/COURSES/MCS360/TOPICS/ag.html   (210 words)

  
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Prepare a context-free grammar suitable for input to "slr".
In this directory are various programs that make up a Modular Attribute Grammar generator and evaluator as described in "Modular Attribute Grammars", by Gery Dueck and Gordon Cormack, to appear in Computer Journal (hopefully April 90).
slr - a program to read a grammar and produce parse tables, as described in "slr.doc".
http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~ftp/mag/README   (302 words)

  
 Network Generating Attribute Grammar Encoding
Extending this approach, we have devised an encoding system that uses an attribute grammar in which the evaluation of both synthesized and inherited attributes within a generated parse tree provides the details of the connectivity of the network.
The development and theoretical analysis of neural network architectures may be improved with the availability of techniques which allow the systematic representation and generation of classes of architectures.
Recent work on the genetic optimization of neural networks has led to new ideas on how to encode neural network architectures abstractly as grammars.
http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/home/browse/Publications/webstuff/1998_ijcnn1.htm   (123 words)

  
 Attribute Grammar Assignment
That is, for each example, you should provide a small grammar, similar to the one at the top of the page, give its parse tree, and show how the values of the attributes are computed by walking the tree.
The remainder of the assignment asks you to attribute your grammar in order to check for certain properties of the syntaxes it is used to parse.
Be sure to describe the notation that you are using to specify the grammar (e.g.
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2006/cs6390_fall/hw/attgrm.html   (492 words)

  
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The action rules for L-attributed grammars, in which the attribute flow is depth-first left-to-right, can be evaluated in the order of the parse tree prediction for LL grammars.
¡$•ó —óö—Ÿ¨Attribute GrammarsŸ¨qContext-Free Grammars (CFGs) are used to specify the syntax of programming languages E.g.
http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/Fall03/csci431/slides/ch4.ppt   (864 words)

  
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From our Attribute Grammar, we can see that each AG rule is to break down one none-terminal into one or more other none-terminals or terminals, and the concatenation of the right-hand-side components forms the result of the left-hand-side none-terminal.
If the test result is syntactically correct Prolog program, and follows the Attribute Grammar pattern without error message in it, then the testing is success.
All the Alloy specs are translated into Prolog with the syntax agreed to the Attribute Grammar.
http://www.nd.edu/~yzheng1/7MSE/4AssessEval.doc   (355 words)

  
 Hexapedia - Computer science
In its most general sense, computer science (CS or compsci) is the study of computation and information processing, both in hardware and in software.
In practice, computer science includes a variety of topics relating to computers, which range from the abstract analysis of algorithms, formal grammars, etc. to more concrete subjects like programming languages, software, and computer hardware.
As a scientific discipline, it is distinct from mathematics, programming, software engineering, informatics, and computer engineering, although there are significant overlaps and no clear demarcation.
http://computer_science.en.hexafind.com   (129 words)

  
 Chapter 5
Attribute evaluation functions cannot be collected together into empty productions in an attribute grammar.
For every parse tree, construct graph with node for every attribute of every node of parse tree.
one can assign attribute values to nonterminal nodes of parse tree so that all attribute assertions hold.
http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~kvanhorn/cs722/chap5.html   (1828 words)

  
 Attribute Grammar Systems Compilers Programming Computers
- The formalism for the to attribute grammars related Affix Grammar over Finite Lattices developed at the University of Nijmegen is being applied to natural-language processing.
- The system generates efficient incremental attribute evaluators and was written by one of the attribute-grammar formalizers.
- The implemented programming language is based on an attribute grammar.
http://www.iaswww.com/ODP/Computers/Programming/Compilers/Attribute_Grammar_Systems   (147 words)

  
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There are Environment and Store attributes * which model, respectively, the static and dynamic semantics of the language.
For example, in nearly all denotational and * attribute-grammar definitions of programming languages, arithmetic and * logical operators are considered primitive.
Since the meta notation in most programming language * definitions is something other than the language itself, the "on faith" * aspect of the definition may seem more acceptable than in this case, where * the meta notation for the semantics of FMSL is FMSL itself.
http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~gfisher/projects/fmsl/specification/fmsl.fmsl   (881 words)

  
 Attribute Grammar Example: Declaration Semantics
This informal description of the semantics is sufficient explanation for a programmer to be able to write sensible declarations, but for purposes of automating type-checking (such as a compiler would do), a more formal, computational description of the semantics is desirable.
We now extend the above BNF grammar to an attribute grammar by introducing a type attribute for the symbols and giving a set of semantic rules for calculating the values of the attributes.
Use the given attribute grammar to draw a decorated parse tree for the declaration list
http://www.emunix.emich.edu/~remmers/337/decl_semantics.html   (258 words)

  
 "Fun" With Attribute Grammars
However, the optimizations are specified in the attribute grammar of the target langauge!
The aim of the work in this paper is to create retargetable comilers with attribute grammars.
Theory of attribute grammars was worked out in the 70's
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/369-s04/Transcripts/FunWAttributeGrammars-WithCommentsFromJeff.html   (472 words)

  
 A Practical Attribute Grammar Circularity Test
Parallel attribute evaluation - structure of evaluators and detection of parallelism.
Efficient implementations for two optimisations to Knuth's attribute grammar circularity test are described.
In: Deransart P, Jourdan M (eds.), Attribute Grammars and their Applications (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 461), pp 61-75 (1990).
http://www.mattababy.org/~belmonte/Publications/Papers/88_TR   (85 words)

  
 Rob Relyea : Attribute grammar for xaml attributes
It’s a mistake for Microsoft to keep XAML spec changes private no matter how badly they want to be the first to ship their design.
ComputedValues - go through 1 well defined extension mechanism to support scenarios that need to be handled in attributes that map to many different Types.
As part of this change, the flexibility that people have with compact syntax will be reduced.
http://www.longhornblogs.com/rrelyea/archive/2004/10/09/5955.aspx   (871 words)

  
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A set of generic, off-the-shelf attribute grammar components have been incorporated to the system.
Matthijs Kuiper started constructing Lrc during his research on parallel attribute evaluation and he is the main developer of the system.
After having introduced higher-order attribute grammars, Harald Vogt, Doaitse Swierstra and Matthijs Kuiper extended the Lrc system to process higher-order attribute grammars.
http://www.di.uminho.pt/~jas/Research/LRC/lrc.html   (1005 words)

  
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Attributes can either be inherited or synthesized.ó Ÿ¨Attributes - Contdª Ÿ¨wAn attribute of a grammar symbol is synthesized if it is computed from the attributes of its children in the parse tree corresponding to the rightmost derivation.
An attribute of a grammar symbol is inherited, if it is computed from the attributes of its parents and siblings.ªt¶žó Ÿ¨Attributes - Contdª Ÿ¨² Example: Declarations--> Type varlist varlist --> varlist, var
Example attributes could be value, type, font-size, base line etc. For each separate instance of the grammar symbol, there will be separate instance of the attribute.
http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~moorthy/Courses/compiler98/Lectures/lecturesinppt/lecture9.ppt   (148 words)

  
 Energy Citations Database (ECD) - Energy and Energy-Related Bibliographic Citations
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Energy Citations Database (ECD) Document #7106897 - Attribute grammar inversion and source-to-source translation
http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=7106897   (65 words)

  
 Comp.compilers: Attribute Grammar Technology
grammar, how does it differ structurally from other kinds of grammars,
Attribute Grammar Technology crocus.waterloo.edu!rmpinchback@RELAY.CS.NET (Reid M. Pinchback) (1988-08-09)
I've heard the buzz-phrase "attribute grammar" before, but I've never
http://compilers.iecc.com/comparch/article/88-08-012   (73 words)

  
 attribute_grammar - OneLook Dictionary Search
General Web searches for dictionaries containing attribute grammar:
Other places to try your search for attribute grammar:
http://www.onelook.com/?w=attribute_grammar&other=1   (72 words)

  
 Attribute Translation System definition of Attribute Translation System in computing dictionary - by the Free Online ...
Attribute Translation System - (ATS) A BNF-based parser generator from the University of Saskatchewan(?).
Attribute Translation System definition of Attribute Translation System in computing dictionary - by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
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http://computing-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Attribute+Translation+System   (113 words)

  
 Hexapedia - Grammar
Grammar is the study of the rules governing the use of a language.
http://grammar.en.hexafind.com   (42 words)

  
 Grammar.ParseTree (Generic Interpreter 1.0 Private API)
Each symbol is followed by its attribute value, if it is not
http://www.csupomona.edu/~carich/gi/gi-1.0/docs/private/gi/Grammar.ParseTree.html   (44 words)

  
 No match for attribute grammar
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