textbook or paper suggestions for course?

Folks,
    I've been asked to teach the following grad course:


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COSC 661 Compiler Design and Construction II 3 credit hours


Continuation of COSC 561 (your run-of-the-mill one-semester
      undergrad compiler course; our students have non-CS backgrounds)


Advanced topics in compiler design and construction.
Automated compiler tools and compiler compilers.
Advanced code optimization techniques.
Role of compilers in natural language processing.
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The problem is...
my compiler skills are rudimentary (I've written a simple
compiler with a shift-reduce parser and no optimization, that's it)
and I have little or no idea on what truly is appropriate material for
this course. (The person who wrote the above course description is
long-gone; no help there.)


I could just teach "the rest of the the textbook"
        -- Fischer/LeBlanc in this case --
and give them a project using lex/yacc
        -- I made them hand-code the project in the 561 course --
but what else should I be giving these students?


The last topic has been addressed in the recent comp.compilers thread
"Natural Language Parser Wanted"; anything else come to mind?


thanks -- Alex


Alexander Glockner
Asst. Professor, Dept. of Computer Science
Bowie State University
glockner@cosc.bsu.umd.edu
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