When rules are activated like this, the size of grammar will not affect the efficiency of the parser. Firstly we shall briefly sketch the overall parsing process. A morphological analysis precedes the parser. This is, of course, a prerequisite for parsing a highly inflected language, such as Finnish. The parser gets morphologically analysed words with their lexical information.
Lexical descriptions come from the parser s own lexicon.
A disambiguator for ambiguous morphological output should also exist somewhere. So far we have none. For each morphologically ambiguous token of a word form the parser tries to find dependents. This leads to multiple work and possible misparses. The basic method of the parser is that it tries to recognise possible dependents for each token of a word category moving out from the nearest neighbour.