| 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 |