parsern.
/ˈpɑːzə/, U.S. /ˈpɑrsər/ 1. A person who parses; (also) a book on parsing.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > [noun] > study or science of > syntactic analysis > book on
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > [noun] > study or science of > syntactic analysis > one who
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1826 H. Nixon (title) The English parser.
1869 F. A. March (title) A parser and analyzer for beginners.
1882 I. Mayo Mrs. Raven's Temptation II. 99 An expert parser need not be an intelligent reader.
1906 H. Van Dyke Ideals xi. 237 We are spending infinite toil and money to produce spellers and parsers and scanners.
1994 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 23 Jan. 9/1 She is a great reader of subtexts and parser of artistic intentions.
2002 Washington Post (Nexis) 29 Aug. c01 Curiously, Lieberman's answer includes no mention of..Al Gore. The detail is not lost on the gallery of post-speech parsers.
2. Computing. A program for parsing.
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society > computing and information technology > software > [noun] > applications program > parser
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1965 Communications ACM 8 688/1 In testing the program on 300 basic English sentences Knowlton's parser produced 137 correct parsings and 44 incorrect ones.
1977 E. von Glasersfeld in D. M. Rumbaugh Lang. Learning by Chimpanzee v. 121 The parser, however, can handle a lexicon of 250 items.
1991 Ace Feb. 39/1 Ever talked to a computer? I don't mean typing in phrases to a parser, like in an adventure game, I mean actually spoken to one?
Compounds
parser-generator n. Computing a program which accepts a formal description of the grammar of a language and generates a parser for that language.
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1973 Communications ACM 16 669/1 This paper describes a parser-generating system (PGS) currently in use on the CDC-6500 computer at Purdue University... Key Words and Phrases: parser generators,..compression algorithm.
1989 Dr. Dobb's Jrnl. Aug. 38/2 Many commercial compilers use a table-driven parser that is generally created by a parser-generator program.
1998 S. W. McRoy et al. in M. A. Gernsbacher & S. J. Derry Proc. 20th Ann. Conf. Cognitive Sci. Soc. 688 The Parser component of the Parser/Generator performs the first level of processing on the user input using its grammar and the domain information from the Knowledge Representation Component.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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