Everything about Syntax-directed translation

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Syntax-directed translationA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Syntax-aware bidirectional decoding Neural Machine Translation modelInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Les lettres de mon moulinThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Syntax directed translations and the pushdown assemblerCited 66 times
5. Go sideways: LitheA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Compiler-compilerA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Syntax directed translations and the pushdown assembler

  A.V. Aho, J.D. Ullman · 1969 · Journal of Computer and System Sciences · 66 citations

• Properties of syntax directed translations

  A.V. Aho, J.D. Ullman · 1969 · Journal of Computer and System Sciences · 41 citations

• Syntax-Directed Attention for Neural Machine Translation

  Kehai Chen, Rui Wang, Masao Utiyama · 2018 · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 32 citations

• Generalized Syntax Directed Translation, Tree Transducers, and Linear Space

  Brenda S. Baker · 1978 · SIAM Journal on Computing · 18 citations

• Stochastic Syntax-Directed Translation Schemata for Correction of Errors in Context-Free Languages

  M.G. Thomason · 1975 · IEEE Transactions on Computers · 17 citations

• Semantic-syntax-directed translation

  Arthur Pyster, H. William Buttelmann · 1978 · Information and Control · 16 citations

• Behavioral Synthesis of Asynchronous Circuits Using Syntax Directed Translation as Backend

  Sune Fallgaard Nielsen, Jens Sparso, Jan Madsen · 2009 · IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems · 16 citations

• Multi-function radar emitter identification based on stochastic syntax-directed translation schema

  Haijun Liu, Hongqi Yu, Zhaolin Sun · 2014 · Chinese Journal of Aeronautics · 14 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Syntax-aware bidirectional decoding Neural Machine Translation model

  Jia Dong · 2024 · Applied and Computational Engineering · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Les lettres de mon moulinAlphonse Daudet, Editions Editions AOJB · 1869
• Artificial intelligenceStuart J. Russell, Peter Norvig · 1994
• A designer's guide to asynchronous VLSIPeter A. Beerel · 2010
• The syntax and idioms of HindustaniSimon Matthews Edwin Kempson · 1890
• Principles of compiler designAlfred V. Aho, Jeffrey D. Ullman · 1977
• TCP/IP IllustratedW. Richard Stevens, Kevin R. Fall · 1993
• Theory of computationDerick Wood · 1987
• 📕Productivity in Argument SelectionAmir Zeldes · 2012

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