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The left corner of a production rule in a context-free grammar is the left-most symbol on the right side of the rule.
For example, in the rule A->X?, X is the left corner.
The left corner table associates a symbol with all possible left corners for that symbol, and the left corners of those symbols, etc.
Given the grammar
- S->VP
- S->NP VP
- VP->V NP
- NP->DET N
Left corners are used to add bottom-up filtering of a top-down parser.
You can use the left corners to do top-down filtering of a bottom-up parser.
Video Left corner
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