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Cascaded Grammatical Relation Assignment

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In this paper we discuss cascaded Memory- Based grammatical relations assignment. In the first stages of the cascade, we find chunks of sev- eral types (NP,VP,ADJP,ADVP,PP) and label them with …...

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Memory-Based Shallow Parsing

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Representing Text Chunks

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Chunk-Based Statistical Translation

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