Review of Current issues in parsing technology by Masaru Tomita. Kluwer Academic Publishers 1991.
Robert J. Kuhns · Computational Linguistics · 1991
Current Issues in Parsing Technology, edited by Masaru Tomita, contains 18 revised versions from the 45 papers that were presented at the International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT-89) in August 1989. (Other papers from the conference relating to generalized LR parsing can be found in another book edited by Tomita, aptly titled Generalized LR Parsing.) Seventeen of the contributions in the book report on implementations or formal results (e.g., theorems and proofs) associated with parsing issues, while the first chapter is an introduction by the editor that sets the context and objective for the conference and the book. This introductory chapter also briefly summarizes each of the other papers. Before discussing the common goal and commenting on whether the reports satisfy that objective, a short sketch of each contribution is provided.