Parser : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Parser	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Parser
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
parser n a computer program that divides code up into functional components; "compilers must parse source code in order to translate it into object code"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Parser \Pars"er\, n. One who parses.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
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}. (1997-07-21)