Re: Generalized parser without generation

Derk Gwen <derkgwen@HotPOP.com>
4 Feb 2004 21:43:02 -0500

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From: Derk Gwen <derkgwen@HotPOP.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 4 Feb 2004 21:43:02 -0500
Organization: Quick STOP Groceries
References: 04-02-031
Keywords: parse
Posted-Date: 04 Feb 2004 21:43:02 EST

moughanj@tcd.ie (James Moughan) wrote:
# A friend of mine has been given a final year project for which his
# supervisor wants the above; that is, a program which can read in a
# description of a grammar then parse a file using it directly. Users
# must be able to add new grammars at any time without compiling. ...


You can start an Earley parser with very little preprocessing of
grammar. I'm currently using one to discover patterns in text by
adding productions to the grammar one at a time until the corpus is
completely parsed.
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