Software archeology: interpreting JavaScript source code's semantic intent
Abstract syntax trees declare the relationships among JavaScript elements, but they do not reveal the source code's meaning.
Table of contents
- Beyond syntax: identifying semantic intent
- Abstract Semantic Graphs (ASGs)
- Theta criterion
- Conceptual graphs
Beyond syntax: identifying semantic intent
The Shift Semantics library defines a structure for representing the behaviour of an ECMAScript program as well as a function for deriving one of these structures from a Shift AST.
Abstract Semantic Graphs (ASGs)
Shift Semantics generates an Abstract Semantic Graph (ASG) for ECMAScript programs and a way to generate one from a Shift AST
Theta criterion
In Chomskian Government and Binding Theory, the θ criterion asserts:
Each argument bears one and only one θ-role, and each θ-role is assigned to one and only one argument.