• Title: Parsing Techniques: A Practical Guide
• Author(s) Dick Grune and Ceriel J.H. Jacobs
• Publisher: Springer; Softcover reprint of hardcover 2nd ed. 2008 edition (November 23, 2010)
• Paperback: 688 pages,
• eBook: PDF and PostScript files
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1441919015
• ISBN-13: 978-1441919014
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Book Description

Parsing techniques provide a solid basis for compiler construction and linguistics, and contribute to all existing software: they enable Web browsers to analyze HTML pages and PostScript printers to analyze PostScript, and some of the more advanced techniques are used in code generation in compilers and in data compression. Also their importance as general pattern recognizers is slowly being acknowledged.

The second edition of Grune and Jacobs' brilliant work presents new developments and discoveries that have been made in the field. Parsing, also referred to as syntax analysis, has been and continues to be an essential part of computer science and linguistics.

Parsing techniques have grown considerably in importance, both in computer science, ie. advanced compilers often use general CF parsers, and computational linguistics where such parsers are the only option. They are used in a variety of software products including Web browsers, interpreters in computer devices, and data compression programs; and they are used extensively in linguistics.

About the Authors

• Dick Grune is a Dutch computer scientist and university lecturer best known for inventing and developing the first version of the Concurrent Versions System (CVS). Grune was involved in the construction of Algol 68 compilers in the 1970s and the Amsterdam Compiler Kit in the 1980s.

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