Syntatic Analysis

Parsing or Syntactic Analysis

Parsing [Parsing] [1] or syntactic analysis is the process of analysis a string of symbols, either in natural language or in computer languages, conforming to the rules of a formal grammar. The term parsing comes from Latin pars (orations), meaning part (of speech). Part of speech is a category of words (or, more generally, of lexical items) which have similar grammatical properties. Commonly listed English parts of speech are noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, interjection, and sometimes numeral, article or determiner.

[1]: Parsing is the process of recognizing a string or a sentence and give a structure to it. "Parsing"

• Complete Syntactic Analysis (or full parsing): Consists in recovering the syntactic structure or syntactic tree associated with a sentence. If the sentence does not belong to the language, no solution is provided.

• Surface or Partial Syntactic Analysis (shallow parsing, light parsing, chunking): Determining the constituent elements of a sentence (nominal groups, verbs) without specifying internal structures, or functions in the sentence, does not produce a complete syntactic tree.

• Statistical Syntactic Analysis: Consists in identifying certain structures and syntactic components in a sentence using probabilistic models and automatic learning.