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  <Title>A Divide-and-Conquer Strategy for Shallow Parsing of German Free Texts</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We present a divide-and-conquer strategy based on finite state technology for shallow parsing of real-world German texts. In a first phase only the topological structure of a sentence (i.e., verb groups, subclauses) are determined. In a second phase the phrasal grammars are applied to the contents of the different fields of the main and sub-clauses. Shallow parsing is supported by suitably configured preprocessing, including: morphological and on-line compound analysis, efficient POS-filtering, and named entity recognition. The whole approach proved to be very useful for processing of free word order languages like German. Especially for the divide-and-conquer parsing strategy we obtained an f-measure of 87.14% on unseen data.</Paragraph>
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