Re: Syntax trees from strings

[Søren Hauberg]

On Jun 28, 2013, at 1:45 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Søren Hauberg <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi All
>> 
>> I just had a very interesting chat with a researcher doing machine learning 
>> in collaboration with Coursera, trying to build large scale grading systems. 
>> They are working on tools for grading the quality of a code submission by 
>> students (i.e. a student submit a piece of code as an answer to an exercise, 
>> and now they want to grade that piece of code).
>> 
>> As they use Octave as their main teaching language they also hook into the 
>> Octave code to build these grading systems. In particular they use the 
>> Octave parser to generate syntax trees. Right now they get the code 
>> submission through a database, then they write the code to a file and run 
>> the parser on that file. He was curious if there are ways of to avoid 
>> writing the code to a file in order to parse it. Do we have such functions?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Søren
>> 
> 
> That's kind of cool. Is their development available for the community?
> Are they releasing this upgrades/extensions under GPLv3 or compatible?

As it is now this is purely research (i.e. not production code), which I doubt 
they will release. I don't know if they will release code once they have 
something for production.

I do doubt that such would be of value to others as it is bound to be very 
specialised to their particular infrastructure, but I don't know.

Søren