The black hole…
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Here I am again sharing news from my recent toy-project. The version 0.3.0 of tree-sitter-bnf-tools is out. If you did not run my tree-sitter grammars in plain BNF notation instead of JavaScript. It hips a CLI called ts-bnf-tool to convert, check, format, and analyse those grammars. Versions 0.1.0 and 0.2.0 were covered in earlier posts; […]
A few weeks ago I wrote about Writing Tree-sitter grammars in BNF, introducing a new toy project, a utility to write grammars in a clean BNF notation and convert them to the Tree-Sitter JavaScript syntax. The project repository is on GitHub: ambs/tree-sitter-bnf-tools. Version 0.2.0 is out now. I introduced a couple of new sub-commands to […]
I’ve been using eXist-db for some years, mainly as the backbone of LeXmart, a tool for lexicographers, and that has been used for different projects, and the most prominent of which is Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa. eXist-db is a powerful native XML database with XQuery support, widely used in digital humanities, publishing, and other applications […]
If you keep up with my blog, you might remember a tutorial series on using Tree-sitter. At that time, I expressed my frustration on using it to write grammars, as they are expressed in JavaScript. But I ended up learning it, and for that, I invested some time in the tutorial. The tutorial example was […]
I spent my birthday afternoon in a hospital waiting room. Not because I was sick, but because my mother-in-law was. While waiting, I kept staring at the hospital dashboard, trying to understand how the average waiting time for a particular urgency level could show two hours, when there was already some persons who have been […]
I’m back to using a Mac at work after almost four years on Windows. It’s a nice relief—though honestly, still not as good as running Linux. Anyway, while setting up the Mac, I stumbled on what I’m calling a bug (because it is one) in the mouse and touch-pad settings. Both panes in the Settings […]
In the last months, I’ve been hearing about Agentic-AI. The hype is enormous. I decided to delve deeper and understand what exactly Agentic-AI is and its relevance in today’s world. As a first try, I went to Wikipedia, and found a very clear definition of Agentic-AI: Thus, agentic AI is a program that uses AI […]
As stated previously, Part #5 of this tutorial provides a brief overview of using Tree-Sitter from C#. This post continues from Part #4 and will add a Domain Object Model to the parser. It will not include many details specific to Tree-Sitter, as it will be more of a restructuring of our Rust code. Nevertheless, […]
Linguamática is a scientific journal created 16 years ago (2009) by Xavier Gómez Guinovart, José João Almeida, and me. It is a joint venture between the University of Vigo and the University of Minho. Our main goal was to create a forum where we could discuss Natural Language Processing in the languages we were studying. […]
I will get back to Rust to investigate more Tree-Sitter features, like cursors. But for my job, I might need to use Tree-Sitter from C#. So, I decided to write a post on how to do that, this time, from Windows. In the future, maybe I can look into how to do that with dotnet […]
