In this chapter, we will discuss top-down parsing methods that try to rederive the input sentence by prediction. As explained in Section 3.2.1, we start with the start symbol and try to produce the input from it; at any point in time, we have a sentential form that represents our prediction of the rest of the input sentence.
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Grune, D., Jacobs, C.J.H. (2008). General Directional Top-Down Parsing. In: Parsing Techniques. Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68954-8_6
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