What is the concept of parsing?

Parsing is the process of analyzing a piece of text in order to determine its grammatical structure and meaning. In computational linguistics, parsing is typically done by a computer program that uses algorithms to analyze the text and identify its constituent parts.

Parsing is the process of converting formatted text into a data structure. A data structure type can be any suitable representation of the information engraved in the source text.

• Tree type is a common and standard choice for XML parsing, HTML parsing, JSON parsing, and any programming language parsing. The output tree is called Parse Tree or Abstract Syntax Tree. In HTML context, it is called Document Object Model (DOM).
• A CSV file parsing can result in a List of List of values or a List of Record objects.
• Graph Type is a choice for natural language parsing.

A piece of program that does parsing is called Parser.

In OEDQ, Parsing is defined as the application of user-specified business rules and artificial intelligence in order to understand and validate any type of data en masse, and, if required, improve its structure in order to make it fit for purpose.