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Extending the BiYacc framework with ambiguous grammars

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Resumo:Contrarily to most conventional programming languages where certain symbols are used so as to create non-ambiguous grammars, most recent programming languages allow ambiguity. This results in the necessity for a generic parser that can deal with this ambiguity without loss of performance. Currently, there is a GLR parser generator written in Haskell, integrated in the BiYacc system, developed by Departamento de Informática (DI), Universidade do Minho (UM), Portugal in collaboration with the National Institute of Informatics, Japan. In this thesis, this necessity for a generic parser is attacked by developing disambiguation filters for this system which improve its performance, as well as by implementing various known optimizations to this parser generator. Finally, performance tests are used to measure the results of the developed work.
Autores principais:Macedo, José Nuno Castro de
Assunto:Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Eletrónica e Informática
Ano:2018
País:Portugal
Tipo de documento:dissertação de mestrado
Tipo de acesso:acesso aberto
Instituição associada:Universidade do Minho
Idioma:inglês
Origem:RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
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Resumo:Contrarily to most conventional programming languages where certain symbols are used so as to create non-ambiguous grammars, most recent programming languages allow ambiguity. This results in the necessity for a generic parser that can deal with this ambiguity without loss of performance. Currently, there is a GLR parser generator written in Haskell, integrated in the BiYacc system, developed by Departamento de Informática (DI), Universidade do Minho (UM), Portugal in collaboration with the National Institute of Informatics, Japan. In this thesis, this necessity for a generic parser is attacked by developing disambiguation filters for this system which improve its performance, as well as by implementing various known optimizations to this parser generator. Finally, performance tests are used to measure the results of the developed work.