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Parsing HTML with regex (lemmy.sdf.org)
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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world -3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For instance you can’t write a regex that’ll relibly find the subject, object and verb in any english sentence

Identifying parts of speech isn't a requirement of the word parse. That's the linguistic definition. In computer science identifying tokens is parsing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing

[–] notabot@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's certainly one level of parsing, and sometimes alk you need, but as the article you posted says, it more usually refers to generating a parse tree. To do that in a natural language isn't happening with a regex.

[–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Thanks for all the explaining. I always wondered why you can't parse HTML since I first saw the Stack Overflow post, when you can take any HTML code you find and write an expression to work against said set of data.

I never understood the word parse to mean understanding and building a structure based on any input.