On automata and language based grammar metrics

Abstract. Grammar metrics have been introduced to measure the quality and the complexity of the formal grammars. The aim of this paper is to explore the meaning of these notions and to experiment, on several grammars of domain specific languages and of general-purpose languages, existing grammar metrics together with the new metrics that are based on grammar LR automaton and on the language recognized. We discuss the results of this experiment and focus on the comparison between grammars of domain specific languages as well as of general-purpose languages and on the evolution of the metrics between several versions of the same language.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: COMSIS
• Authors: Matej Crepinsek, Tomaz Kosar, Marjan Mernik, Julien Cervelle, Rémi Forax, Gilles Roussel
• Keywords: Applied Computing, COMSIS 2010, Domain Specific Languages, Grammar Metrics, Grammars