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BUP: A Bottom-Up parser embedded in Prolog

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A parser based on logic programming language (DCG) has very useful features; perspicuity, power, generality and so on. However, it does have some drawbacks in which it cannot deal with CFG with left recursive rules, for example. To overcome these drawbacks, a Bottom-Up parser embedded in Prolog (BUP) has been developed. In BUP, CFG rules are translated into Prolog clauses which work as a bottom-up left corner parser with top-down expectation. BUP is augmented by introducing a “link” relation to reduce the size of a search space. Furthermore, BUP can be revised to maintain partial parsing results to avoid computational duplication. A BUP translator and a BUP tracer which support the development of grammar rules are described.

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  1. Hozumi Tanaka

    Present address: Department of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, 152, Tokyo, Japan

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  1. Electrotechnical Laboratory, Sakura-mura, Niihari-gun, 305, Ibaraki, Japan

    Yuji Matsumoto & Hozumi Tanaka

  2. ICOT Research Center, Institute for New Generation Computer Technology, Mita Kokusai Bldg. 21F, 4-28 Mita I-chome, Minato-ku, 108, Tokyo, Japan

    Hideki Hirakawa, Hideo Miyoshi & Hideki Yasukawa

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Matsumoto, Y., Tanaka, H., Hirakawa, H. et al. BUP: A Bottom-Up parser embedded in Prolog. New Gener Comput 1, 145–158 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03037421

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