- The process of analyzing a string of symbols, either in natural language, computer languages or data structures, conforming to the rules of a formal grammar. The term “parsing” comes from Latin pars (orationis), meaning “part (of speech).” The term has slightly different meanings in different branches of linguistics and computer science. Within computational linguistics “parsing” is used to refer to the formal analysis by a computer of a sentence or other string of words into its constituents, resulting in a parse tree showing their syntactic relation to each other, which may also contain semantic and other information. ← Wikipedia
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