Syntactic Parsing Task

A Syntactic Parsing Task is a parsing task that requires the production of a syntactic parse tree.

• Context:
  • Input:
    • a Sentence.
    • a Syntax (of some Formal Language).
    • optional: a Parser.
  • output: a Syntactic Representation.
  • It can be solved by a Syntactic Parsing System.
  • It can range from being a Shallow Syntactic Parsing Task to being a Deep Syntactic Parsing Task.
• Example(s):
  • Natural Language Syntactic Parsing Task.
  • Computer Program Syntactic Parsing Task.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Semantic Parsing Task.
• See: Syntactic Acceptance Task, DNA Analysis.

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References

2009

• http://foldoc.org/index.cgi?grammar
  • Parsing assigns a terminal syntactic category to each input token and a non-terminal category to each appropriate group of tokens, up to the level of the whole sentence. Parsing is usually preceded by lexical analysis.

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