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This paper describes some of the work done as part of the ESPRIT II SIMPR project. The aim of SIMPR is to research and develop methods for the effective retrieval and manipulation of textual information, using automatic natural language processing techniques. This paper describes the automatic language processing techniques developed during SIMPR and how these have been used to develop a method for retrieving and matching textual information. Input texts are processed automatically at the morpho-syntactic language analysis level and from this processing are generated tree-structured internal representations which are matched to perform retrieval. This paper describes the language analysis and how it is used in matching texts.
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Smeaton, A.F., Voutilainen, A., Sheridan, P. (1990). The Application of Morpho-Syntactic Language Processing to Effective Text Retrieval. In: ESPRIT ’90. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0705-8_44
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