Development, assessment, and reengineering of language descriptions

Proceedings - 13th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 1998

Volumn 1998-October, Issue , 1998, Pages 314-317

  Sellink, A ^a   Verhoef, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computer aided language engineering (CALE); Document generation; Grammar reengineering; Language description development; Message Sequence Charts.; Reengineering; System renovation

Indexed keywords

REENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SYNTACTICS;

DOCUMENT GENERATION; LANGUAGE DESCRIPTION; LANGUAGE ENGINEERING; MESSAGE SEQUENCE CHARTS; SYSTEM RENOVATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85051971302     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASE.1998.732688     Document Type: Conference Paper

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