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parsing

[ pahr-sing ]

noun

  1. the act or process of analyzing sentences or their elements grammatically:

    Many sites offer additional help for those studying classical Greek texts, such as quick parsing and translation.

  2. the act or process of analyzing language, behavior, events, etc., closely or minutely to discover their implications or deeper meaning:

    At first I interpreted the case the same way, but on second thought, and after careful parsing of the press releases, it's not as clear-cut.

    There will always be opportunities to entertain disquisitions on the subject, more detailed parsing of the circumstances, and so on.

  3. Computers. the process of analyzing character strings in order to associate them with syntactic units of the underlying grammar:

    If the file path contains spaces, use double quotes to ensure correct parsing.



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Although the 2021 draft class looks better, it will be hard again to parse the talent, especially during a college basketball season that’s going to be full of scrambling and cancellations.

There’s still some data parsing to do on that claim, including whether or not different subgroups across demographics respond to the vaccine candidate differently than others.

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AI models that can parse both language and visual input also have very practical uses.

As we clarified in our initial reporting and Google confirmed today, indexing hasn’t changed, just Google’s ability to parse out a relevant passage that may be well down a page and would not have stood a chance of ranking before.

Maya Srikrishnan parsed some of the recent scandals and challenges at the school, and Vargas’ record on the board.

Disagreements will focus on right and wrong, not parsing of legal language.

Though the idea of parsing meaning from hip-hop is new, the link between music and mental health is well-trodden ground.

When their correspondence was finally disclosed, it needed careful parsing.

So now, a grand jury sits in St. Louis County, taking testimony and parsing evidence.

Their task: parsing the public statements of Ben Carson, the neurosurgeon who conservatives desperately want to run for president.

"You can say we might all have done the parsing if we'd begun it first," said Beatrice.

Parsing a word is putting together all the facts about its form and its relations to other words in the sentence.

The parsing of prepositions means merely telling between what words or word groups they show relation.

So much time would be devoted to parsing every sentence through the book.

The earnest virgins were, she fancied, as likely to do harm as to do good by their faith in the value of parsing Caesar.

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