This introduction to the syntactic analysis of natural language and computer programs combines mathematical rigor with high readability. It may serve as a textbook for a graduate course on parsing theory.

Inhalt
Foreword.- Acknowledgements.- I. Exposition.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The primordial soup framework.- II. Foundation.- 3. Tree-based parsing schemata.- 4. Item-based parsing schemata.- 5. Refinement and generalization.- 6. Filtering.- III. Application.- 7. An introduction to unification grammars.- 8. Parsing schemata for unification grammars.- 9. Topics in unification grammar parsing.- 10. Left-Corner chart parsing.- 11. Head-Corner chart parsing.- 12. Generalized LR parsing.- 13. Parallel Bottom-up Tomita parsing.- 14. Boolean circuit parsing.- 15. Conclusions.