--- a/csupp.tex Fri Nov 11 23:38:10 2011 +0000
+++ b/csupp.tex Sun Nov 20 22:53:50 2011 +0000
@@ -43,7 +43,8 @@
it increasingly clear, that this is not true anymore~\cite{Might11}. And
there is a real practical need for new results: for example the future HTML5
Standard abandons a well-defined grammar specification, in favour of a bespoke
-parser given as pseudo code.
+parser given as pseudo code. Proving any property about this parser is nearly
+impossible.
This work targets parsers from a certification point of view. Increasingly,
parsers are part of certified compilers, like
@@ -77,7 +78,7 @@
(CFGs). This extension introduces new regular operators, such as
negation and conjunction, on the right-hand side of grammar rules, as well as
priority orderings for rules. With these extensions, PEG parsing becomes much
-more powerful and more useful in practise. For example disambiguation, formerly expressed by semantic
+more powerful and more useful in practice. For example disambiguation, formerly expressed by semantic
filters, can now be expressed directly using grammar rules.
However, there is a serious limitation of PEGs, which affects potential
@@ -93,9 +94,9 @@
parsing. There are also good indications that we can adapt work on Boolean
Grammars~\cite{Okhotin04}, which are similar to PEGs and for which the
paper~\cite{KountouriotisNR09} gives a fixed-point semantics
-to negation operators, but not to the Kleene star.
+for negation operators, but not to the Kleene star.
-For the parsing algorithm, we might be able to build upon
+For our parsing algorithm, we might be able to build upon
the classic Cocke-Younger-Kasami (CYK)
algorithms~\cite{KountouriotisNR09} and
Early~\cite{AycHor02, Earley70} parsers. The defect of CYK algorithms, however,