The document discusses different types of parsing including:
1) Top-down parsing which starts at the root node and builds the parse tree recursively, requiring backtracking for ambiguous grammars.
2) Bottom-up parsing which starts at the leaf nodes and applies grammar rules in reverse to reach the start symbol using shift-reduce parsing.
3) LL(1) and LR parsing which are predictive parsing techniques using parsing tables constructed from FIRST and FOLLOW sets to avoid backtracking.