The Grammar Hammer of 2012

TL;DR

This paper presents a comprehensive case study of various initiatives in formal grammar research and related topics undertaken by the author in 2012, highlighting their relevance and interconnections.

Contribution

It offers a detailed overview of diverse grammar-related research efforts and concepts, including convergence, transformation, metasyntactic specifications, and open notebook science, in a single case study.

Findings

Collected and analyzed multiple grammar research initiatives from 2012

Explored the relevance and relationships among various grammar topics

Included new algorithms, visualization techniques, and open science practices

Abstract

This document is a case study in aggressive self-archiving. It collects all initiatives undertaken by its author in 2012, including unpublished ones, explains their relevance and relation with one another. Discussed topics include guided convergence of formal grammars in a broad sense, programmable grammar transformation operator suites, metasyntactic specifications and methods of their manipulation, tolerant (soft computing) methods in parsing theory, megamodelling as modelling linguistic architecture of software systems, repositories of grammatical knowledge, open notebook computer science, as well as the number of minor topics (new parsing algorithms, visualisation techniques, etc). A brief overview of involved venues is also included in the report.