Prefix Parsing is Just Parsing (2026.acl-short)

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Challenge: Existing prefix parsers are typically tied to particular parsing algorithms.
Approach: They propose a prefix grammar transformation that reduces prefix parsing to ordinary parsers . they propose enabling prediction of the next token by computing the next-token weight vector .
Outcome: The proposed method reduces prefix parsing to ordinary parsers without modification . the transformed grammar is only a small factor larger than the input .

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