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2023-07-08Finished the Emacs binding.JSDurand
Now the binding part is finished. What remains is a bug encountered when planting a fragment to the forest which intersects a packed node, which would lead to invalid forests. This will also cause problem when planting a packed fragment, but until now my testing grammars do not produce packed fragments, so this problem is not encountered yet. I am still figuring out efficient ways to solve this problem.
2023-02-28Add no_item parameter.JSDurand
* chain/src/default.rs: * chain/src/lib.rs: Add a parameter that controls whether or not the chain-rule machine computes the item derivation forest as well. Sometimes we only need to recognize whether an input belongs to the grammar, but do not care about the derivations. This parameter can speed up the machine in that case.
2023-02-27before a major refactorJSDurand
I decide to adopt a new approach of recording and updating item derivation forests. Since this affects a lot of things, I decide to commit before the refactor, so that I can create a branch for that refactor.
2023-02-13Fix phantom edgesJSDurand
Previously there was a minor bug: if the chain-rule machine ended in a node without children, which node should be accepting because of edges that have no children and hence were ignored, then since the node has no children, it would be regarded as not accepting. Now this issue is fixed by introducting real or imaginary edges, where an imaginary edge is used to determine the acceptance of nodes without chidlren.
2023-02-12Added the functionality of split or clone.JSDurand
I need more than the ability to clone nodes: I also need to split the nodes. Now this seems to be correctly added.
2023-01-28a prototype of an item derivation forestJSDurand
It seems to be complete now, but still awaits more tests to see where the errors are, which should be plenty, haha.
2023-01-22forest: clone correctlyJSDurand
Now the forest can detect if a node is packed or cloned, and correctly clones a node in those circumstances. But it still needs to be tested.
2023-01-20chain: a prototype is added.JSDurand
I have an ostensibly working prototype now. Further tests are needed to make sure that the algorithm meets the time complexity requirement, though.
2023-01-03structural change: separate crates outJSDurand
I put functionalities that are not strictly core to separate crates, so that the whole package becomes more modular, and makes it easier to try other parsing algorithms in the future. Also I have to figure the forests out before finishing the core chain-rule algorithm, as the part about forests affects the labels of the grammars directly. From my experiences in writing the previous version, it is asking for trouble to change the labels type dramatically at a later point: too many places need to be changed. Thus I decide to figure the rough part of forests out. Actually I only have to figure out how to attach forests fragments to edges of the underlying atomic languages, and the more complex parts of putting forests together can be left to the recorders, which is my vision of assembling semi-ring values during the chain-rule machine. It should be relatively easy to produce forests fragments from grammars since we are just trying to extract some information from the grammar, not to manipulate those information in some complicated way. We have to do some manipulations in the process, though, in order to make sure that the nulling and epsilon-removal processes do not invalidate these fragments.
2022-12-23renaming core to chain and some other changesJSDurand
Some changes: - The core crate is renamed to "chain". - The crate "viz" is added, which will provide layered graph drawing algorithms. - A function is added to convert from a grammar to the regular language of its left-linear closures. - A function is added to convert from a nondeterministic finite automaton to its "null" closure. A null closure is the same automaton with edges added, as if some edges are "null". Whether an edge is null is determined by a function. Combined with the previous change, we can convert a grammar to the regular language of the null closure of its left-linear closures. --- Now it remains to test more grammars and add an Atom trait, before finishing the part about compilations.