A computational grammar and lexicon for Maltese

the most standard orders which are used most commonly. This of course has the effect that the
grammar would be less effective for parsing open Maltese text.
2.4 Development and testing
2.4.1 Development tools
RGL source code browser
This web-based tool 5 allows the user to browse the source code of all modules in the RGL.
Its main feature is the ability to search the scope of any module, thus allowing one to quickly
reach the definition of a function which is inherited from some other module. This is achieved
by using the --tags flag to the GF compiler, which produces so-called .tags files which contain
all functions in the scope of each module. These files are processed and loaded by the
RGL browser in an asynchronous fashion. The RGL browser was build to speed up resource
grammar writing, by making it easy to look at implementations in other languages in order to
inform one’s own development.
Figure 2.1: Screenshot of the RGL browser tool
Syntax tree editor
Another web tool developed during the work described in this thesis the syntax tree editor 6 ,
which allows the user to construct abstract syntax trees graphically according to some grammar.
5 http://www.grammaticalframework.org/lib/doc/browse/, accessed 2013-09-05
6 http://cloud.grammaticalframework.org/syntax-editor/editor.html, accessed 2013-09-05
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