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  <Title>Linguistic Knowledge and Question Answering</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The availability of robust and deep syntactic parsing can improve the performance of Question Answering systems. This is illustrated using examples from Joost, a Dutch QA system which has been used for both open (CLEF) and closed domain QA.</Paragraph>
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