Attribute Grammars, Applications and Systems

This volume presents the proceedings of a summer school aimed at teaching the state of the art in attribute grammars, and their relation to other language specification methods. The papers are suited for self-study and for introductory courses.

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to attribute grammars.- Attribute Grammars as a specification method.- Attribute evaluation methods.- Implementation of visit-oriented attribute evaluators.- Storage allocation for attribute evaluators using stacks and queues.- Grammar flow analysis.- Attribute evaluation and parsing.- Incremental attribute evaluation.- A survey of parallel attribute evaluation methods.- Higher Order Attribute Grammars.- Object-orientation in attribute grammars.- Attribute grammars and logic programs: A comparison of concepts.- Affix grammars for programming languages.- Incremental static semantic analysis for object-oriented languages using Door Attribute Grammars.- Attribute grammars in a compiler construction environment.- Prototyping by using an attribute grammar as a logic program.- Using the generative aspect of attribute grammars in a knowledge based way.- Natural language interface construction using attribute grammars.- Affix grammars for natural languages.- Internals and externals of the FNC-2 attribute grammar system.- An overview of the OPTRAN system.- Attribute reevaluation in OPTRAN.- The translator writing system RUEGEN-KS.