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<Paper uid="E99-1016">
  <Title>Cascaded Markov Models</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper presents a new approach to partial parsing of context-free structures.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The approach is based on Markov Models. Each layer of the resulting structure is represented by its own Markov Model, and output of a lower layer is passed as input to the next higher layer. An empirical evaluation of the method yields very good results for NP/PP chunking of German newspaper texts.</Paragraph>
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