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  <Title>PARSING GERMAN</Title>
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CONCLUSION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The structure of the German language adds some difficulties to the general problem of parsing natural language. Flexible word-order 370 I. STEINACKER and H. TROST and multiple sources for ambiguities led us to choose a data-driven approach. Syntactic and semantic information are used for disambiguation of existing structures and for expectations that control processing of new input.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Since backtracking is inevitable in some cases we tried to make it as efficient as possible. The integration of syntax and semantics facilitates backtracking to a large degree because semantic representations for all constituents are built independently. If backtracking occurs e.g. after having selected a wrong verb-sense, the parser has to destroy the existing semantic representation and replace it with the one indicated by the new verb. The slots of the instantiation of the concept for the new verb have to be filled with the already existing structures instead of having to start the parse all over again.</Paragraph>
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