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<Paper uid="C04-1157">
  <Title>Verb Phrase Ellipsis detection using Automatically Parsed Text</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper describes a Verb Phrase Ellipsis (VPE) detection system, built for robustness, accuracy and domain independence.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The system is corpus-based, and uses a variety of machine learning techniques on free text that has been automatically parsed using two difierent parsers. Tested on a mixed corpus comprising a range of genres, the system achieves a 72% F1-score. It is designed as the flrst stage of a complete VPE resolution system that is input free text, detects VPEs, and proceeds to flnd the antecedents and resolve them.</Paragraph>
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