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  <Title>A General Computational Treatment of Comparatives for Natural Language Question Answering</Title>
  <Section position="8" start_page="46" end_page="46" type="concl">
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9. Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have presented algorithms aimed at the morphological, syntactic, and semantic problems associated with a large variety of comparative structures that arise in the context of question answering. We believe the extent of our coverage equals in several ways and exceeds in some ways the capabilities known to us via the literature. However, comparatives operate as a &amp;quot;meta&amp;quot; phenomenon and thus cut across many issues; we have ignored certain problems and knowingly treated others inadequately.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Further work is certainly required, and we hope to have presented a framework in which (I) some interesting and important capabilities can be provided for now and (2) further computational studies can be carried out.</Paragraph>
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