The document discusses the phases of a compiler:
1) Lexical analysis scans the source code and converts it to tokens which are passed to the syntax analyzer.
2) Syntax analysis/parsing checks the token arrangements against the language grammar and generates a parse tree.
3) Semantic analysis checks that the parse tree follows the language rules by using the syntax tree and symbol table, performing type checking.
4) Intermediate code generation represents the program for an abstract machine in a machine-independent form like 3-address code.