Generic Language Technology

Course code: 2IS15

Time and location:

• Tuesday: 08:45-10:30 (1st and 2nd hour) in Paviljoen B2 (quarter 1 and 2)
  
• Wednesday: 10:45-12:30 (3rd and 4th hour) in Matrix 1.41 (only quarter 1)

Slides of the courses:

• GLT course introduction presented at 6th of September
• GLT introduction presented at 6th of September
• Basic technology (scanning) presented at 7th of September
• Signatures and grammars presented at 13th of September
• Basic technology (scanning) presented at 14th of September
• Signatures and grammars presented at 20th of September
• Static semantics presented at 20th of September
• Basic technology (top-down parsing) presented at 21st of September
• Static semantics presented at 27th of September
• Basic technology (bottom-up parsing) presented at 28th of September
• Dynamic semantics presented at 4th of October
• Dynamic semantics presented at 11th of October
• Basic technology (GLR) presented at 12th of October
• Dynamic semantics presented at 18th of October
• Domain Specific Language Engineering presented at 15th of November
• Domain Specific Language Engineering presented at 22nd of November
• Domain Specific Language Engineering presented at 29th of November
• Domain Specific Language Engineering presented at 6th of December
• Domain Specific Language Engineering (VPDSL) presented at 13th of December and a printable version
• Domain Specific Language Engineering (ATL) presented at 20th of December
• Domain Specific Language Engineering (Xtend/QVTo/Xpand) presented at 10th of Januari

Exercises

You have to work individually when making this exercises.

• Exercise 1: In order to make the exercise you have to down load the following ZIP file. The deadline for the first exercise is 17th of October and you have to hand in via Peach3
• Exercise 2: The deadline for the second exercise is 21st of November and you have to hand in via Peach3
• Exercise 3: The deadline for the third exercise is 5th of December and you have to hand in via Peach3. Extra instructions are made available.
• Exercise 4: The deadline for the fourth exercise is 16th of January 2012 and you have to hand in via Peach3.

• Background information on scanning and parsing can be found in the book "Compilers" by Aho, Sethi and Ullman, Chapters 3 and 4 or in Chapters 3 and 4 of the course notes by Christopher Whyley of University of Wales, Swansea.
• Paper on language modelling by A. Johnstone, P.D. Mosses and E. Scott.

Material to study for the exam of 27th of January 2012:

• All slides on:
  • Generic Language Technology
  • Grammars and signatures
  • Static and dynamic semantics
  • Basic Technology
  • Domain Specific Language Engineering
• The book "Software Language Engineering" by Anneke Kleppe.
• Paper on language modelling by A. Johnstone, P.D. Mosses and E. Scott.
• Background information on parsing can be found in the book "Compilers" by Aho, Sethi and Ullman, Chapters 3 and 4 or in Chapters 3 and 4 of the course notes by Christopher Whyley of University of Wales Swansea.
• Riis Nielson, Hanne, Nielson, Flemming: Semantics with Applications: An Appetizer, Series: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science, 1st Edition., 2007, 274 p., (Chapter1,2,3) DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84628-692-6, (available online from TU/e)
• Stappers, F.P.M., Weber, S., Reniers, M.A., Andova, S. and Nagy I. Formalizing a domain specific language using SOS: An industrial case study, SLE 2011.
• Paper on Language-Driven System Design by S. Mauw, W.T. Wiersma, T.A.C. Willemse.
• The manual of Xtext.
• The manual of ATL (Section 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6).

Final mark of GLT The exam of GLT counts for 60% and the practical exercises count for 40%, both with a minimum of 5.5.

Examples of written exams:

• first exam of 2008
• second exam of 2008
• first exam of 2009
• second exam of 2009
• first exam of 2010
• second exam of 2010
• first exam of 2011
• second exam of 2011

Note on previous exams: Do not spend time on solving the questions:

• 2 and 3 from exam 2010,
• 2 and 3 from 2nd exam 2010,
• 2 from exam 2011,
• 3h from exam 2011,
• 2 from 2nd exam 2011.

So, no specific knowledge about, for instance ASF+SDF, Rascal, etc., is needed, general knowledge about grammars, semantics is of course needed.