1970 AnEfficientCFParsingAlgorithm

• (Earley, 1970) ⇒ Jay Earley. (1970). "An Efficient Context-Free Parsing Algorithm." In: Communications of the ACM, 13(2). doi:10.1145/362007.362035

Subject Heading(s): Earley Parser.

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• A parsing algorithm which seems to be the most efficient general context-free algorithm known is described. It is similar to both Knuth's LR(k) algorithm and the familiar top-down algorithm. It has a time bound proportional to n3 (where n is the length of the string being parsed) in general; it has an n2 bound for unambiguous grammars; and it runs in linear time on a large class of grammars, which seems to include most practical context-free programming language grammars. In an empirical comparison it appears to be superior to the top-down and bottom-up algorithms studied by Griffiths and Petrick.
• A recognizer is an algorithm which takes as input a string and either accepts or rejects it depending on whether or not the string is a sentence of ...,

	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
1970 AnEfficientCFParsingAlgorithm	Jay Earley			An Efficient Context-Free Parsing Algorithm			http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/alavie/11-711/711-cmt/Class-notes/p94-earley.pdf	10.1145/362007.362035