An empirical evaluation of Lex/Yacc and ANTLR parser generation tools.

Parsers are used in different software development scenarios such as compiler construction, data format processing, machine-level translation, and natural language processing. Due to the widespread usage of parsers, there exist different tools aimed at automizing their generation. Two of the most co...

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Main Authors: Francisco Ortin, Jose Quiroga, Oscar Rodriguez-Prieto, Miguel Garcia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264326