Compilers need to recover the structure of the program from its textual representation. This process is called parsing, and the algorithm that does it is called a parser. The parser reads …

D. Grune & C.J.H. Jacobs, Parsing Techniques: Practical Guide, Second Edition, Springer, 2008

The Role of the Parser The parsing phase of a compiler can be thought of as a function: Input: sequence of tokens from the lexer Output: parse tree of the program Not all sequences of …

These notes are intended as a “rough and ready” guide to grammars and parsing. The theoretical foundations required for a thorough treatment of the subject are developed in the Formal …

Chart Parsing: The General Idea The process of parsing an n-word sentence consists of forming a chart with n + 1 vertices and adding edges to the chart one at a time.

Parsing is the process of structuring a linear representation in accordance with a given grammar. This definition has been kept abstract on purpose, to allow as wide an interpretation as possible.

You can think of parsing as a special case of a search problem as defined in AI. In particular, the top-down parser in this section was described in terms of the following generalized search …