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<Paper uid="P01-1035">
  <Title>Serial Combination of Rules and Statistics: A Case Study in Czech Tagging</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> A hybrid system is described which combines the strength of manual rule-writing and statistical learning, obtaining results superior to both methods if applied separately. The combination of a rule-based system and a statistical one is not parallel but serial: the rule-based system performing partial disambiguation with recall close to 100% is applied first, and a trigram HMM tagger runs on its results. An experiment in Czech tagging has been performed with encouraging results.</Paragraph>
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