| BNF | Backus–Naur form | 巴科斯范式 - 1959 John Backus | 
| EBNF | extended BNF | 扩展巴科斯范式 - ISO-14977 | 
| DFA | Deterministic finite automaton | 确定有限状态自动机 | 
| NFA | Nondeterministic finite automaton | 非确定有限状态自动机 | 
| CFG | Context free grammar | 上下文无关语法 | 
| TDPL | Top-Down Parsing Language |  | 
| LL(k) | Left-to-right, Leftmost derivation | top-down - 1970s | 
| LLR | LL-regular |  | 
| LR | Left-to-right, Rightmost derivation in reverse | bottom-up - 1965 Donald Knuth | 
| DCFG | Deterministic Context Free Grammar |  | 
| PEG | Parsing expression grammar | 解析表达文法 - 2004 Bryan Ford | 
| ANTLR | ANother Tool for Language Recognition |  | 
| LALR | Look-Ahead LR parser | 简化版的 LR | 
| SLR |  |  | 
| Canonical LR(1) |  |  | 
| Minimal LR(1) |  |  | 
| GLR | Generalized LR parser | 广义 LR 解析器 | 
| RPN | Reverse Polish notation |  | 
| AST | Abstract Syntax Tree | 抽象语法树 | 
| CST | Concrete Syntax Tree | 具体语法树 | 
| CSG | Context-sensitive grammar | 上下文相关语法 |