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Parsing or syntactic analysis is
the process of analysing a string of symbols, either in
natural language or in computer languages, according to the
rules of a formal grammar. The term parsing comes from Latin
pars (òràtiònis), meaning part (of speech).
The term has slightly different
meanings in different branches of linguistics and computer
science. Traditional sentence parsing is often performed as a
pedagogical exercise, especially in inflected languages such
as the Romance languages or Latin, sometimes with the aid of
devices such as sentence diagrams. It usually emphasizes the
importance of traditional divisions such as subject and
predicate.
Within computational linguistics
the term is used to refer to the formal analysis by computer
of a sentence or other string of words into its constituents,
resulting in a parse tree showing their syntactic relation to
each other, which may also contain semantic and other
information.
The term is also used in
psycholinguistics when describing language comprehension. In
this context, parsing refers to the way that human beings
analyze a sentence or phrase (in spoken language or text) "in
terms of grammatical constituents, identifying the parts of
speech, syntactic relations, etc." This term is especially
common when discussing what linguistic cues help speakers to
interpret garden-path sentences.
Within computer science, the
term is used in the analysis of computer languages, referring
to the syntactic analysis of the input code into its component
parts in order to facilitate the writing of compilers and
interpreters.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing
I wanted to bookmark this, as this is a form of what I am
doing when I look at how people making meaning, and make sense
out of that meaning.
Most of you know, I'm not very good
in English.
I'm often found of parroting that
when I was traveling Eastern European Countries, that I found
a common language-->Bad English! Which I promptly identified
with and as I've traveled among emerging markets for the past
decade, I now have very creative bad English, from texting,
chatting and every other kind of short cut an expedient person
can manage.
However, one thing that has "come
to me" is a capability (good or not) to parse I would say
meaning making, and it has been very helpful.
I demonstrate this "Parsing
@F-L-O-W here: http://flow.ph/valudynamics/evolutionary
This may NOT be what is meant by
parsing as a traditional form, but my sense is it is related
and it was important for me to just capture that in a TPOV
now.
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