The Grammar Hammer of 2012

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 It collects all initiatives undertaken by its author in 2012, including unpublished ones, explains their relevance and relation with one another.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.