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parsing

parsing

7 5.2
The act of examining language or data to find structure and meaning
  • noun
  • /ˈpɑːrsɪŋ/
  • Specialized
: análisis
  • Students often struggle with parsing complex sentences in their grammar lessons.
  • intelligent parsing
  • parsing logic
  • parsing procedure

So how should we think about language in parsing trauma?

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Examples

  • More often, the court is engaged in careful parsing of the bankruptcy code or a thorny dispute over water rights.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Stuart Hall makes a similar argument in his parsing of the word "identity."

    Academic text (2003)

  • And it's it's very helpful specifically for parsing health related information in media or marketing.

  • Step one: The analysis starts with syntactic parsing of the natural language.

    Academic text (2017)

  • The parsing of natural language into DOL is performed using a context-free grammar.

    Academic text (2017)

  • In all the languages that I studied, I learned grammar and parsing instead of guessing the vague content of long sentences.

    Academic text (1991)

  • More detailed information regarding relationship dynamics would support the further parsing of the effects of the dimensions of romantic relationships in emerging adulthood.

    Academic text (2018)

  • In particular, FRAANK implements intelligent parsing to extract accounting numbers from natural-text financial statements available from the SEC EDGAR repository.

    Academic text (2005)

  • The program is designed for parsing data from various online sources to generate reports.

  • Effective parsing of language patterns can help computers understand human speech better.

Synonyms

analysis
vsparsing
∞ 3.4

Careful study of something by breaking it into parts to understand

focuses on structure and meaning of language or data in technical contexts

How Thorough

studying
1 1.0
parsing
  • Specialized
7 5.2
reading
228 1.0
browse
1 4.1
skimming
1 2.9

Surface Forms

parsing singular
parsings plural

Morphology

parsing = parse (transparent) = parse + ing

Standard nominalization/gerund formation from the verb 'parse' indicating the action or process.

Etymology

Parsing comes from the Latin root pars, which means 'part'. It is connected to the familiar word part: to parse is to break a sentence or data into smaller parts to look at how they fit together. That's why parsing means breaking language or data into parts to understand it.