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Bottom-up parsing

Bottom-up parsing is a way of analyzing sentences in a language or computer program. It starts by looking at the individual pieces (called 'words') in a sentence and figuring out what they mean. It then combines these pieces to figure out the meaning of the whole sentence. Bottom-up parsing is the opposite of top-down parsing, which starts by figuring out the meaning of the whole sentence and then breaking it down into its individual words.