A parser is a program that enables the translation of source code, which is the original form of program instruction, into object code, or language that the computer is able to understand. As such, parsing is part of the compilation process. The...

1 Description of the syntactic structure of sentences using elementary units such as morphemes, words, phrases and their mutual interrelationships. The goals and methods of parsing are dependent on the grammatical theory in question. Thus the point of...

A grammatical formalism in generative grammar from the family of unification grammars. PATR was created and first used by Shieber as a computer language for the development of unification grammar. Context-free phrase structures and feature structures...

// 1. vt. To assign a grammatical structure to (a string of words). Parsing may be a classroom exercise, but nowadays it is more usually carried out by computer programs called parsers. 2. vi. To be assigned a grammatical structure, especially...

// n. A computational device, most usually a computer program, that is capable of reading a string of words representing a well-formed sentence and of assigning a suitable grammatical structure to it, usually as an intermediate step in assigning a...

vt. 1. To assign a valid phonological structure to (a string of elements in a representation). 2. vi. To be assigned such structure. 3. n. The phonological structure assigned in such a...

Computer programs for syntactic analyses (...

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In computer science and linguistics, parsing (more formally: syntactic analysis) is the process of analyzing a sequence of tokens to determine its grammatical structure with respect to a given formal grammar. A parser is the component of a compiler that...