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+\begin{document}
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\mode<presentation>{
+\begin{frame}<1>[t]
+\frametitle{%
+ \begin{tabular}{@ {}c@ {}}
+ \\[-3mm]
+ \LARGE Automata and \\[-2mm]
+ \LARGE Formal Languages (8)\\[3mm]
+ \end{tabular}}
+
+ \normalsize
+ \begin{center}
+ \begin{tabular}{ll}
+ Email: & christian.urban at kcl.ac.uk\\
+ Of$\!$fice: & S1.27 (1st floor Strand Building)\\
+ Slides: & KEATS (also home work is there)\\
+ \end{tabular}
+ \end{center}
+
+
+\end{frame}}
+ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\mode<presentation>{
+\begin{frame}[c]
+\frametitle{\begin{tabular}{c}Building a ``Web Browser''\end{tabular}}
+
+Using a lexer: assume the following regular expressions
+
+\begin{center}
+\bl{\begin{tabular}{lcl}
+$SY\!M$ & $\dn$ & $(\text{a}..\text{zA}..\text{Z0}..\text{9}..)$\\
+$W\!O\!RD$ & $\dn$ & $SY\!M^+$\\
+$BT\!AG$ & $\dn$ & $<\!W\!O\!RD\!>$\\
+$ET\!AG$ & $\dn$ & $<\!/W\!O\!RD\!>$\\
+$W\!HIT\!E$ & $\dn$ & $\texttt{" "} + \texttt{"}\slash{}n\texttt{"}$\\
+\end{tabular}}
+\end{center}
+
+\end{frame}}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\mode<presentation>{
+\begin{frame}[c]
+\frametitle{\begin{tabular}{c}Interpreting a List of Tokens\end{tabular}}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item the text should be formatted consistently up to a specified width, say 60 characters
+\item potential linebreaks are inserted by the formatter (not the input)
+\item repeated whitespaces are ``condensed'' to a single whitepace
+\item \bl{$<\!p\!>$} \bl{$<\!\slash{}p\!>$} start/end paragraph
+\item \bl{$<\!b\!>$} \bl{$<\!\slash{}b\!>$} start/end bold
+\item \bl{$<\!red\!>$} \bl{$<\!\slash{}red\!>$} start/end red (cyan, etc)
+
+
+\end{itemize}
+
+\end{frame}}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\mode<presentation>{
+\begin{frame}[c]
+\frametitle{\begin{tabular}{c}Interpreting a List of Tokens\end{tabular}}
+
+The lexer cannot prevent errors like
+
+\begin{center}
+\bl{$<\!b\!>$} \ldots \bl{$<\!p\!>$} \ldots \bl{$<\!\slash{}b\!>$} \ldots \bl{$<\!\slash{}p\!>$}
+\end{center}
+
+or
+
+\begin{center}
+\bl{$<\!\slash{}b\!>$} \ldots \bl{$<\!b\!>$}
+\end{center}
+
+
+\end{frame}}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\mode<presentation>{
+\begin{frame}[c]
+\frametitle{\begin{tabular}{c}Parser Combinators\end{tabular}}
+
+Parser combinators: \bigskip
+
+\begin{minipage}{1.1\textwidth}
+\begin{center}
+\mbox{}\hspace{-12mm}\mbox{}$\underbrace{\text{list of tokens}}_{\text{input}}$ \bl{$\Rightarrow$}
+$\underbrace{\text{set of (parsed input, unparsed input)}}_{\text{output}}$
+\end{center}
+\end{minipage}\bigskip
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item sequencing
+\item alternative
+\item semantic action
+\end{itemize}
+
+\end{frame}}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\mode<presentation>{
+\begin{frame}[c]
+
+Alternative parser (code \bl{$p\;||\;q$})\bigskip
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item apply \bl{$p$} and also \bl{$q$}; then combine the outputs
+\end{itemize}
+
+\begin{center}
+\large \bl{$p(\text{input}) \cup q(\text{input})$}
+\end{center}
+
+
+\end{frame}}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\mode<presentation>{
+\begin{frame}[c]
+
+Sequence parser (code \bl{$p\sim q$})\bigskip
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item apply first \bl{$p$} producing a set of pairs
+\item then apply \bl{$q$} to the unparsed parts
+\item then combine the results:\\ \mbox{}\;\;((output$_1$, output$_2$), unparsed part)
+\end{itemize}
+
+\begin{center}
+\begin{tabular}{l}
+\large \bl{$\{((o_1, o_2), u_2) \;|\;$}\\[2mm]
+\large\mbox{}\hspace{15mm} \bl{$(o_1, u_1) \in p(\text{input}) \wedge$}\\[2mm]
+\large\mbox{}\hspace{15mm} \bl{$(o_2, u_2) \in q(u_1)\}$}
+\end{tabular}
+\end{center}
+
+
+\end{frame}}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\mode<presentation>{
+\begin{frame}[c]
+
+Function parser (code \bl{$p \Longrightarrow f$})\bigskip
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item apply \bl{$p$} producing a set of pairs
+\item then apply the function \bl{$f$} to each first component
+\end{itemize}
+
+\begin{center}
+\begin{tabular}{l}
+\large \bl{$\{(f(o_1), u_1) \;|\; (o_1, u_1) \in p(\text{input})\}$}
+\end{tabular}
+\end{center}\bigskip\bigskip\pause
+
+\bl{$f$} is the semantic action (``what to do with the parsed input'')
+
+\end{frame}}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\mode<presentation>{
+\begin{frame}[c]
+
+Token parser:\bigskip
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item if the input is
+
+\begin{center}
+\large \bl{$tok_1:: tok_2 :: \ldots :: tok_n$}
+\end{center}
+
+then return
+
+\begin{center}
+\large \bl{$\{(tok_1,\; tok_2 :: \ldots :: tok_n)\}$}
+\end{center}
+
+or
+
+\begin{center}
+\large \bl{$\{\}$}
+\end{center}
+
+if \bl{$tok_1$} is not the right token we are looking for
+\end{itemize}
+
+
+
+\end{frame}}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\mode<presentation>{
+\begin{frame}[c]
+
+Number-Token parser:\bigskip
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item if the input is
+
+\begin{center}
+\large \bl{$num\_tok(42):: tok_2 :: \ldots :: tok_n$}
+\end{center}
+
+then return
+
+\begin{center}
+\large \bl{$\{(42,\; tok_2 :: \ldots :: tok_n)\}$}
+\end{center}
+
+or
+
+\begin{center}
+\large \bl{$\{\}$}
+\end{center}
+
+if \bl{$tok_1$} is not the right token we are looking for
+\end{itemize}\pause
+
+\begin{center}
+list of tokens \bl{$\Rightarrow$} set of (\alert{int}, list of tokens)
+\end{center}
+
+\end{frame}}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\mode<presentation>{
+\begin{frame}[c]
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item if the input is
+
+\begin{center}
+\begin{tabular}{l}
+\large \bl{$num\_tok(42)::$}\\
+\hspace{7mm}\large \bl{$num\_tok(3) ::$}\\
+\hspace{14mm}\large \bl{$tok_3 :: \ldots :: tok_n$}
+\end{tabular}
+\end{center}
+
+and the parser is
+
+\begin{center}
+\bl{$ntp \sim ntp$}
+\end{center}
+
+the successful output will be
+
+\begin{center}
+\large \bl{$\{((42, 3),\; tok_2 :: \ldots :: tok_n)\}$}
+\end{center}\pause
+
+Now we can form
+\begin{center}
+\bl{$(ntp \sim ntp) \Longrightarrow f$}
+\end{center}
+
+where \bl{$f$} is the semantic action (``what to do with the pair'')
+
+\end{itemize}
+
+\end{frame}}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\mode<presentation>{
+\begin{frame}[c]
+\frametitle{\begin{tabular}{c}Semantic Actions\end{tabular}}
+
+Addition
+
+\begin{center}
+\bl{$T \sim + \sim E \Longrightarrow \underbrace{f((x,y), z) \Rightarrow x + z}_{\text{semantic action}}$}
+\end{center}\pause
+
+Multiplication
+
+\begin{center}
+\bl{$F \sim * \sim T \Longrightarrow f((x,y), z) \Rightarrow x * z$}
+\end{center}\pause
+
+Parenthesis
+
+\begin{center}
+\bl{$\text{(} \sim E \sim \text{)} \Longrightarrow f((x,y), z) \Rightarrow y$}
+\end{center}
+
+\end{frame}}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\mode<presentation>{
+\begin{frame}[c]
+\frametitle{\begin{tabular}{c}Types of Parsers\end{tabular}}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item {\bf Sequencing}: if \bl{$p$} returns results of type \bl{$T$}, and \bl{$q$} results of type \bl{$S$},
+then \bl{$p \sim q$} returns results of type
+
+\begin{center}
+\bl{$T \times S$}
+\end{center}\pause
+
+\item {\bf Alternative}: if \bl{$p$} returns results of type \bl{$T$} then \bl{$q$} \alert{must} also have results of type \bl{$T$},
+and \bl{$p \;||\; q$} returns results of type
+
+\begin{center}
+\bl{$T$}
+\end{center}\pause
+
+\item {\bf Semantic Action}: if \bl{$p$} returns results of type \bl{$T$} and \bl{$f$} is a function from
+\bl{$T$} to \bl{$S$}, then
+\bl{$p \Longrightarrow f$} returns results of type
+
+\begin{center}
+\bl{$S$}
+\end{center}
+
+\end{itemize}
+
+\end{frame}}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\mode<presentation>{
+\begin{frame}[c]
+\frametitle{\begin{tabular}{c}Input Types of Parsers\end{tabular}}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item input: \alert{list of tokens}
+\item output: set of (output\_type, \alert{list of tokens})
+\end{itemize}\bigskip\pause
+
+actually it can be any input type as long as it is a kind of sequence
+(for example a string)
+
+\end{frame}}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\mode<presentation>{
+\begin{frame}[c]
+\frametitle{\begin{tabular}{c}Scannerless Parsers\end{tabular}}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item input: \alert{string}
+\item output: set of (output\_type, \alert{string})
+\end{itemize}\bigskip
+
+but lexers are better when whitespaces or comments need to be filtered out
+
+\end{frame}}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\mode<presentation>{
+\begin{frame}[c]
+\frametitle{\begin{tabular}{c}Successful Parses\end{tabular}}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item input: string
+\item output: \alert{set of} (output\_type, string)
+\end{itemize}\bigskip
+
+a parse is successful whenever the input has been
+fully ``consumed'' (that is the second component is empty)
+
+
+\end{frame}}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\mode<presentation>{
+\begin{frame}[c]
+{\lstset{language=Scala}\fontsize{10}{12}\selectfont
+\texttt{\lstinputlisting{app7.scala}}}
+\end{frame}}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\mode<presentation>{
+\begin{frame}[c]
+{\lstset{language=Scala}\fontsize{10}{12}\selectfont
+\texttt{\lstinputlisting{app7.scala}}}
+\end{frame}}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\mode<presentation>{
+\begin{frame}[c]
+{\lstset{language=Scala}\fontsize{10}{12}\selectfont
+\texttt{\lstinputlisting{app8.scala}}}
+\end{frame}}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\mode<presentation>{
+\begin{frame}[c]
+\frametitle{\begin{tabular}{c}Two Grammars\end{tabular}}
+
+Which languages are recognised by the following two grammars?
+
+\begin{center}
+\bl{\begin{tabular}{lcl}
+$S$ & $\rightarrow$ & $1 \cdot S \cdot S$\\
+ & $|$ & $\epsilon$
+\end{tabular}}
+\end{center}\bigskip
+
+\begin{center}
+\bl{\begin{tabular}{lcl}
+$U$ & $\rightarrow$ & $1 \cdot U$\\
+ & $|$ & $\epsilon$
+\end{tabular}}
+\end{center}
+
+\end{frame}}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\mode<presentation>{
+\begin{frame}[t]
+\frametitle{\begin{tabular}{c}Ambiguous Grammars\end{tabular}}
+
+\mbox{}\\[-25mm]\mbox{}
+
+\begin{center}
+\begin{tikzpicture}[y=.2cm, x=.009cm]
+ %axis
+ \draw (0,0) -- coordinate (x axis mid) (1000,0);
+ \draw (0,0) -- coordinate (y axis mid) (0,30);
+ %ticks
+ \foreach \x in {0, 20, 100, 200,...,1000}
+ \draw (\x,1pt) -- (\x,-3pt)
+ node[anchor=north] {\small \x};
+ \foreach \y in {0,5,...,30}
+ \draw (1pt,\y) -- (-3pt,\y)
+ node[anchor=east] {\small\y};
+ %labels
+ \node[below=0.6cm] at (x axis mid) {\bl{1}s};
+ \node[rotate=90, left=1.2cm] at (y axis mid) {secs};
+
+ %plots
+ \draw[color=blue] plot[mark=*, mark options={fill=white}]
+ file {s-grammar1.data};
+ \only<2->{\draw[color=red] plot[mark=triangle*, mark options={fill=white} ]
+ file {s-grammar2.data};}
+ %legend
+ \begin{scope}[shift={(400,20)}]
+ \draw[color=blue] (0,0) --
+ plot[mark=*, mark options={fill=white}] (0.25,0) -- (0.5,0)
+ node[right]{\small unambiguous};
+ \only<2->{\draw[yshift=\baselineskip, color=red] (0,0) --
+ plot[mark=triangle*, mark options={fill=white}] (0.25,0) -- (0.5,0)
+ node[right]{\small ambiguous};}
+ \end{scope}
+\end{tikzpicture}
+\end{center}
+
+\end{frame}}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\mode<presentation>{
+\begin{frame}[c]
+\frametitle{\begin{tabular}{c}What about Left-Recursion?\end{tabular}}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item we record when we recursively called a parser\bigskip
+\item whenever the is a recursion, the parser must have consumed something --- so
+we can decrease the input string/list of token by one (at the end)
+\end{itemize}
+\end{frame}}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\mode<presentation>{
+\begin{frame}[c]
+\frametitle{\begin{tabular}{c}While-Language\end{tabular}}
+
+
+\begin{center}
+\bl{\begin{tabular}{@{}lcl@{}}
+$Stmt$ & $\rightarrow$ & $\text{skip}$\\
+ & $|$ & $Id := AExp$\\
+ & $|$ & $\text{if}\; B\!Exp \;\text{then}\; Block \;\text{else}\; Block$\\
+ & $|$ & $\text{while}\; B\!Exp \;\text{do}\; Block$\medskip\\
+$Stmts$ & $\rightarrow$ & $Stmt \;\text{;}\; Stmts$\\
+ & $|$ & $Stmt$\medskip\\
+$Block$ & $\rightarrow$ & $\{ Stmts \}$\\
+ & $|$ & $Stmt$\medskip\\
+$AExp$ & $\rightarrow$ & \ldots\\
+$BExp$ & $\rightarrow$ & \ldots\\
+\end{tabular}}
+\end{center}
+
+
+\end{frame}}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+\mode<presentation>{
+\begin{frame}[c]
+\frametitle{\begin{tabular}{c}An Interpreter\end{tabular}}
+
+\begin{center}
+\bl{\begin{tabular}{l}
+$\{$\\
+\;\;$x := 5 \text{;}$\\
+\;\;$y := x * 3\text{;}$\\
+\;\;$y := x * 4\text{;}$\\
+\;\;$x := u * 3$\\
+$\}$
+\end{tabular}}
+\end{center}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item the interpreter has to record the value of \bl{$x$} before assigning a value to \bl{$y$}\pause
+\item \bl{\text{eval}(stmt, env)}
+\end{itemize}
+
+
+\end{frame}}
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+\end{document}
+
+%%% Local Variables:
+%%% mode: latex
+%%% TeX-master: t
+%%% End:
+