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  <Title>FRAGMENTATION AND PART OF SPEECH DISAMBIGUATION l</Title>
  <Section position="7" start_page="288" end_page="289" type="concl">
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5. Results and conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have presented two syntactic processes which offer useful and necessary support for semantic processing, syntactic parser. Both are based on simple heuristic rules assisted by a backtracking mechanism. Both have been implemented in the SABA system and tested on a corpus of about 125 sentences. Less than 5% of these required a backtracking of the fragmentation process. Since we tried to characterize precisely the situations in which a backtracking could arise, in most sentences there is not only no backtracking, but also no bookkeeping of the intermediate steps.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1">  As for the part of speech disambiguation preprocessor, the 14 rules that we implemented were sufficient to make the right choice in more than 80% of the cases. The very small size of this preprocessor is an important advantage if we think at the high human and computational costs involved in developing and using large size gram. mars.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Although the specific rules that we implemented .were designed for French, we believe that the approach could be applied to other languages as well.</Paragraph>
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