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  <Title>Handling Sparse Data by Successive Abstraction</Title>
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Acknowledgements
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The work presented in this article was funded by the N3 &amp;quot;Bidirektionale Linguistische Deduktion (BiLD)&amp;quot; project in the Sonderforschungsbereich 314 Kiinstliche Intelligeuz -- Wissensbasierte Systeme. null I wish to thank greatly Thorsten Brants, Slava Katz, Khalil Sima'an, the audiences of seminars at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Sussex, in particular Mark Liberman, and the anonymous reviewers of Coling and ACL for pointing out inaccuracies and supplying useful comments and suggestions to improvements.</Paragraph>
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