ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Left corner parser

Imagine you have a big pile of blocks and you want to create a tower out of them. However, there are rules you need to follow to create the tower correctly. Left corner parser is just like creating a tower but instead of blocks, we use words of a language.

The left corner parser is a tool that helps us to understand and analyze sentences in a particular language. It does this by taking a sentence and breaking it down into smaller parts, using a set of rules. These rules are like the rules for building a tower with blocks, and they dictate how the words can be put together to create a valid sentence.

When we use the left corner parser, we start with the first word of the sentence, and we look at the set of rules to see what the next word in the sentence can be. If there is only one possibility, we add that word to our tower. If there are multiple possibilities, we need to make a decision based on the rules.

We keep doing this for each word in the sentence until we have built the complete tower, that is, we have created a valid sentence according to the rules of the language.

In short, the left corner parser is like building a tower out of blocks, but we use words and rules to create a correct sentence in a language.