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  <Title>A PARLOG Implementation of Government-Binding Theory</Title>
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BACKGROUND
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Parse,'s based oil Government-Binding (GB) Theory have been tile subject of a nunlber of research progranlmes. ~ While they all share a colllnlon linguistic framework, the design goals and underlying parsing strategies are varied. Some are tools for ewduating competence and/or performance models of language and others remain neutral with respect to psychological reality.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The parsing engines range from bottom-u p to top-dow n to in ix nlode methods and fronl backtracking to deterministic algorithms. Howe\er, they all approach parsing as a sequential process, and allhough there have been a number o\[' efforts oil parallel parsing (of. /I.\[uang and Guthrie 1986/, /Matsmnoto 1986/, and/Waltz and Pollack 1985/), few are linguisticallyoriented and none arc GB-based. Since GB is a highly modular system of components, development of parallel parsers incorporating the theory allows for a t'cmnal examination into the computational aspects of GB-modules and their interfaces.</Paragraph>
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