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PREMO: Parsing by conspicuous lexical consumption

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Current Issues in Parsing Technology

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In recent years there has been a renewed emphasis onscalein computational linguistics, and a certain disillusionment with the so-called “toy systems” of linguistic and AI models. Recent years have also seen rising interest in the computational analysis of machine-readable dictionaries as a lexical resource for parsing. These two trends are neither accidental nor independent of each other; an obvious place to look for large-scale linguistic information is in existing dictionaries.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, North Dakota State University, USA

    Brian M. Slator

  2. Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, USA

    Yorick Wilks

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    Masaru Tomita

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Slator, B.M., Wilks, Y. (1991). PREMO: Parsing by conspicuous lexical consumption. In: Tomita, M. (eds) Current Issues in Parsing Technology. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 126. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3986-5_6

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