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  <Title>Automatic recognition of French expletive pronoun occurrences</Title>
  <Section position="6" start_page="77" end_page="77" type="concl">
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5 Conclusion and future work
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The method used in ILIMP to locate the occurrences of il in an impersonal use, which gives good results, can be used for other languages and for other tasks. For English, ILIMP can be straightforwardly adapted to disambiguate the impersonal versus anaphoric use of it as a subject pronoun. It has already been said (Section 3.1) that a tool derived from ILIMP can be designed to identify the lexical head of a clause. Another tool can be designed to enhance a module in charge of the computation of syntactic functions, thanks to the notion of &amp;quot;deep extraposed subject&amp;quot;, which is relevant for impersonal clauses. Finally, the method I have proposed to disambiguate an ambiguous and very frequent word as il can be used for other ambiguous frequent functional words such as the (French) word que (which can be a complementizer, a relative pronoun, or an adverb in discontinuous restrictive or comparative expressions) (Jacques 2005).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The goal or ILIMP or related &amp;quot;little&amp;quot; tools is obviously modest and restricted when compared to the goal of a robust parser which would give for any sentence THE correct and complete analysis, with a precision rate closed to 98\%.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> However, it has to be acknowledged that such an ideal parser does not exist, neither for French nor for English, despite many years of effort. So it could be a wise strategy to follow the saying which goes Many a little makes a mickle. If this strategy is followed, research effort is needed first to develop such &amp;quot;little&amp;quot; tools, second to determine how to order them in an efficient sequential processing chain.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3">  Le Monde contains a number of long papers which describe in detail the life and work of famous individuals. These papers, when they describe the life of a man, link up numerous occurrences of anaphoric il (he) referring to the man concerned. One may expect that the percentage of impersonal il increases in newspaper handling only news or economy.</Paragraph>
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