Entity-Oriented Parsing 
 
 An entity-oriented approach to restricted-domain parsing is proposed. In this approach, the definitions of the structure and surface representation of domain entities are grouped together. Like semantic grammar , this allows easy exploitation of limited domain semantics . In addition, it facilitates fragmentary recognition and the use of multiple parsing strategies , and so is particularly useful for robust recognition of extra-grammatical input . Several advantages from the point of view of language definition are also noted. Representative samples from an entity-oriented language definition are presented, along with a control structure for an entity-oriented parser , some parsing strategies that use the control structure , and worked examples of parses . A parser incorporating the control structure and the parsing strategies is currently under implementation . 