Authors:
Luis Quesada
;
Fernando Berzal
and
Francisco J. Cortijo
Affiliation:
University of Granada, Spain
Keyword(s):
Parser, Context-free Grammars, Constraints, Ambiguities.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Domain-Specific Languages
;
MetaModeling
;
Model Tools
;
Modeling Languages
;
Models
;
Paradigm Trends
;
Software Engineering
Abstract:
Traditional language processing tools constrain language designers to specific kinds of grammars. In contrast, model-based language specification decouples language design from language processing. As a consequence, model-based language specification tools need general parsers able to parse unrestricted context-free grammars. As languages specified following this approach may be ambiguous, parsers must deal with ambiguities. Model-based language specification also allows the definition of associativity, precedence, and custom constraints. Therefore parsers generated by model-driven language specification tools need to enforce constraints. In this paper, we propose Fence, an efficient bottom-up chart parser with lexical and syntactic ambiguity support that allows the specification of constraints and, therefore, enables the use of model-based language specification in practice.