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  <Title>CONCURRENT IJ~XICAIJZEI) I)EI)ENI)ENCY PARSING: THE ParseTalk MODEL</Title>
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6 CONCLUSIONS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The ParseTalk model of natural language underslanding aims at the integration of a lexically distrit)uted, dependency-based grannnar spccilication with a solid fonnal foundation for concurrent, object-oriented parsing (of.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Ilahn, Schacht &amp; BrOker (forthcoming) \['or a more elaborated presentation). It conceives communication among and within different kuowledgc sources (grammar, domain and discourse km)wlcdge) as the backbone for complex language understanding tasks. The main specification elements of the grammar m(xlel consist of categorial, roof  phosyntactic, conceptual, and ordering constraints in terms of valency specificatious attached to single lexical items. The associated concurrent computation m~xlel is based on the actor paradigm of objcct-orieuted programmiug. The l'arseTalk model has been experimentally validated by a prototype system, a parser for German (for its implemenlational statns, cf. Schacht, Ilalm &amp; Brt~ker, 1994).</Paragraph>
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