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parsing

parsing

7 5.2
The act of examining language or data to find structure and meaning
  • noun
  • /ˈpɑːrsɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : 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.