abstract = "While grammar inference is used in areas like natural
language acquisition, syntactic pattern recognition,
etc., its application to the programming language
problem domain has been limited. We propose a new
application area for grammar induction which intends to
make domain-specific language development easier and
finds a second application in renovation tools for
legacy systems. The genetic programming approach is
used for grammatical inference. Our earlier work used
grammar-specific heuristic operators in tandem with
non-random construction of the initial grammar
population and succeeded in inducing small grammars.",