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<Paper uid="P99-1066">
  <Title>Automatic Compensation for Parser Figure-of-Merit Flaws*</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Best-first chart parsing utilises a figure of merit (FOM) to efficiently guide a parse by first attending to those edges judged better.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> In the past it has usually been static; this paper will show that with some extra information, a parser can compensate for FOM flaws which otherwise slow it down. Our results are faster than the prior best by a factor of 2.5; and the speedup is won with no significant decrease in parser accuracy.</Paragraph>
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