Grammatical analysis

Baalbaki, R. Some aspects of harmony and hierarchy in Sibawayhi s grammatical analysis. Z Arab Linguistik 2 (1979) 7-22. 

For the conversion of systematic names, a more powerful and flexible approach must be based on the parsing of the chemical names and the application of syntax analysis. Figure 3.4 illustrates the principle steps of this procedure. The first step in the process, lexical analysis, splits the whole chemical name into a series of name fragments, known as lexemes, that have structural or grammatical meaning. Also... 

The formatting of chemical names is generally not important. Whereas capitalization or italicization are essentially senseless, both sub- and superscripts are helpful in name analysis, and in most cases the absence of formatting can be resolved simply by grammatical implementation. For example, Name=Struct successfully converts polycyclic names like Tricyclo[3.3.1.11,5]decane that according to nomenclature rules must be written as Tricyclo[3.3.1.11>5]decane. A good N2S engine therefore... 

This document acknowledges that nomenclature develops - without regulated definition - as the field of thermal analysis develops. Some terms used by authors and scientists rapidly become accepted by the scientific community, even if the term is not consistent with past definitions, science or grammatically correct. However, if such a term is widely used and understood, it is reported here. 

Syntax analysis That part of the compiler s front end that has the task of determining whether or not the input is actually a program in the source language. The parser consumes a stream of categorized words produced by the scanner and validates it against an internal model of the source language s grammatical structure (or syntax). The pass that implements syntax analysis is called a parser. 

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