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parser
A routine that analyzes a continuous flow of text-based input and breaks it into its constituent parts. See parse.
parser [′pär·sər]
(computer science)
The portion of a computer program that carries out parsing operations.

(language)parser - An algorithm or program to determine the syntactic structure of a sentence or string of symbols in some language. A parser normally takes as input a sequence of tokens output by a lexical analyser. It may produce some kind of abstract syntax tree as output. One of the best known parser generators is yacc.


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Following an introductory overview, four chapters discuss the project's technical facets: the corpus itself, gathered between 2000 and 2003; the parser designed to find corpus examples of specific support verb constructions; methods for extracting target idioms; and the lexicographic workbench for creating an idiom database.
The software that is used to do this is called a parser and is most often generated by another script that is called a parser generator.
The authors then cover operations and forensics, rules, reports, queries, incident investigation, archiving, disaster recovery and advanced topics such as integration with other security managers, troubleshooting, network admission control and the custom parser, closing with a full chapter on the global controller.
 
 
 
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