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Lyntax - A grammar-Based Tool for Linguistics
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Manuel Gouveia Carneiro de Sousa 
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Maria João Varanda Pereira ,
Pedro Rangel Henriques
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10th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2021)
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- Publication Date: 2021-08-10
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- Research Centre in Digitalization and Intelligent Robotics, Polythechnic Insitute of Bragança, Portugal
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Manuel Gouveia Carneiro de Sousa, Maria João Varanda Pereira, and Pedro Rangel Henriques. Lyntax - A grammar-Based Tool for Linguistics. In 10th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2021). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 94, pp. 4:1-4:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)
https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2021.4
https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2021.4
Abstract
This paper is focused on using the formalism of attribute grammars to create a tool that allows Linguistic teachers to construct automatically their own processors totally adapted to each linguistic exercise. The system developed, named Lyntax, is a compiler for a domain specific language which intends to enable the teacher to specify different kinds of sentence structures, and then, ask the student to test his own sentences against those structures. The processor Lyntax validates the grammar (DSL program) written by the teacher, generating a processor every time the student defines a new sentence. For that ANTLR is used in both steps, generating not only the specialized processor but also the visualization of the syntax tree for analysis purposes. An interface that supports the specification of the language was built, also allowing the use of the processor and the generation of the specific grammar, abstracting the user of any calculations.
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- Human-centered computing → Visualization systems and tools
- Social and professional topics → Computer science education
- Software and its engineering → Source code generation
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- Attribute Grammars
- Linguistic Rules
- Pedagogical Linguistic Tools
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