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Grammar Adaptation

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We employ transformations for the adaptation of grammars. Grammars need to be adapted in grammar development, grammar maintenance, grammar reengineering, and grammar recovery. Starting from a few fundamental transformation primitives and combinators, we derive an operator suite for grammar adaptation. Three groups of operators are identified, namely operators for refactoring, construction and destruction. While refactoring is semantics-preserving in the narrow sense, transformations for construction and destruction require the consideration of relaxed notions of semantics preservation based on other grammar relations than equality of generated languages. The consideration of semantics and accompanying preservation properties is slightly complicated by the fact that we cannot insist on reduced grammars.

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  1. CWI Kruislaan 413 NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1081a, NL-1081, HV, Amsterdam

    Ralf Lämmel

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  1. Computer Science Department, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4700-320, Braga, Portugal

    José Nuno Oliveira

  2. AT&T Laboratories — Research, 180 Park Avenue, Florham Park, New Jersey, 07932, USA

    Pamela Zave

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Lämmel, R. (2001). Grammar Adaptation. In: Oliveira, J.N., Zave, P. (eds) FME 2001: Formal Methods for Increasing Software Productivity. FME 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2021. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45251-6_32

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