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in this paper we have described a new, bottom-up, parsing algorithm, derived from the standard Earley's algorithm. It is easier to understand and more efficient, thanks to the precomputation of some closure relations and to the minimization of the number of items that it computes, and yields an improved practical efficiency and a better error explanation capability which make it well adapted to be the parsing system of many experimental environments.
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Voisin, F. (1989). A bottom-up adaptation of earley's parsing algorithm. In: Deransart, P., Lorho, B., Małuszyński, J. (eds) Programming Languages Implementation and Logic Programming. PLILP 1988. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 348. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-50820-1_46
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