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Parsing systems able to analyse natural language text robustly and accurately at an appropriate level of detail would be of great value in computer applications ranging from speech synthesis and document style checking to message understanding and automatic translation. A number of research groups worldwide are currently developing such systems, varying in the depth of analysis from lexical parsing or tagging (identifying syntactic features just of individual words), through shallow or phrasal parsing (finding phrases, e.g. NPs, or forming hierarchical syntactic structure but not exploiting subcategorisation), to full parsers (which deal with unbounded dependencies etc., and are able to recover predicate-argument structure).
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