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  <Title>A Practical Comparison of Parsing Strategies</Title>
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CONCLUSIONS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have seen that theoretical arguments can be quite inaccurate in their predictions when one makes the transition from a worst-case model to an actual, real-world situation. &amp;quot;Order n-cubed&amp;quot; performance does not appear to be realized in practice; what is more, the oft-neglected constants of theoretical calculations seem to exert a dominating effect in practical situations.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Arguments about relative efficlencles of parsing methods based on idealized models such as inner-loop counters similarly fail to account for relative efficlencies observed in practice. In order to meaningfully describe performance, one must take into account the complete operational context of the Natural Language Processing system, particularly the expenses encountered in storage management and applying rule-body procedures.</Paragraph>
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