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From: rh@linus.UUCP (Richard F. Hilliard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Language Processing Applications
Message-ID: <36094@linus.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 88 21:27:21 GMT
Organization: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, MA
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I am interested in hearing about work on language processing
applications developed in Smalltalk (or other object oriented
languages). I am aware of those classes that come with Smalltalk-80
(ParseNode, Compiler, etc.), but am wondering about the
appropriateness of the "object oriented paradigm" for efficient
language analysis.  I'd be interested in *any* information, including
the following, about such applications:

	What are the specifics of the application (e.g., natural
	language, term rewriting system, formal specification
	language, ..) and the language being processed?

	What types of grammars (context free, ..) are supported?

	What are the object classes in the application (e.g.,
	tokens, terminals, non-terminals, rules, actions, parse trees,
	..)? And how are they structured?

	How is the application structured?

	What is the control strategy for rule application?

	

Rich Hilliard
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