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scheme used, and (iii) stochastic: the parse selected
by the stochastic disambiguator. The error reduc-
tion row lists the reduction in error rate relative to
the upper and ... constraint-based parser and
a stochastic disambiguation model. We re-
port on the results of applying this sys-
tem to parsing the UPenn Wall Street
Journal (WSJ) treebank. The model com-
bines full and partial ... free text. The approach presented in this
paper is a first attempt to scale up stochastic parsing
systems based on linguistically fine-grained hand-
coded grammars tothe UPenn WallStreet Journal
(henceforth...
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with the Treebank partial bmcketings of the sentences of
those samples. For each sample, we counted the percent-
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Parsing theWallStreetJournal with the
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Street Journal corpus using the inside-outside
algorithm for stochastic context-free grammars.
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makes no ,assumption of the kinds ... of the available
training material ,and evaluate the effect of the training
size on the bracketing perform,'mce. Then, we describe a
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