Parsing

Parsing or syntactic analysis is the process of analysing a string of symbols, either in natural language or in computer languages, conforming to the rules of a formal grammar. The term parsing comes from Latin pars (orationis), 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 method of understanding the exact meaning of a sentence, sometimes with the aid of devices such as sentence diagrams. It usually emphasizes the importance of grammatical divisions such as subject and predicate.

Within computational linguistics the term is used to refer to the formal analysis by a 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.

Parse (disambiguation)

Parse may refer to:

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Parse (company)

Parse is a Mobile Backend as a Service provider based in Menlo Park, CA.

Growth

Parse was founded in 2011 by Tikhon Bernstam, Ilya Sukhar, James Yu, and Kevin Lacker, previously at Google and Y Combinator. The firm produces back-end tools for mobile developers that help mobile developers store data in the cloud, manage identity log-ins, handle push notifications and run custom code in the cloud.

On November 9, 2011 it raised 5.5M in venture capital funding. In 2012, its tools was being used by 20,000 mobile developers and that number was growing at 40% monthly. On Sept 11, 2012 it added the ability to create custom code on the back end.

Fast Company named Parse one of the top 50 most innovative companies of 2013.

Facebook acquired the firm for $85 million in 2013.

In 2014, Parse was reported to power 500,000 mobile apps,.

On 28 January 2016, Facebook announced that it will close down Parse, with services effectively shutting down on 28 January 2017.

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