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  <Title>Scalable Construction-Based Parsing and Semantic Analysis</Title>
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7 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Cognitive linguistics has provided the theoretical basis for turning natural language systems into broad coverage systems, but a formal mechanism to describe these theories was a necessary first step before natural language systems could take advantage. ECG stepped in to provide such formal mechanism, and the first system to profit is the constructional analyzer.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The work is far from over, however. While the current system does (theoretically) scale with respect to linguistic coverage, it still does not scale with respect to computational performance. Thus further computational work is necessary. The deep semantics must be leveraged to make the systems computationally faster and more robust. Initial work in this direction has already begun (Narayanan and Jurafsky, 1998) (Bryant, 2003).</Paragraph>
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