SLE as an Evolving Body of Knowledge: A 19-Year Comparative Analysis of Calls and Proceedings

Abstract

The Software Language Engineering (SLE) community has accumulated nearly two decades of content. This content comprises not only papers as such, but also other tangible artefacts like conference descriptions, calls for papers, tools, repositories. Yet, the field's self-description (how it positions itself to potential contributors) and its accumulated output (what the community actually produces) are rarely studied together in a reproducible, fine-grained way.