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An improved inter-level communication strategy that enhances the capabilities of cascaded finite-state partial parsing systems is presented. Cascaded automata are allowed to make forward calls to other automata in the cascade as well as backward references to previously identified groupings. The approach is more powerful than a design in which the output of the current level is simply passed to the next level in the cascade. The approach is evaluated on randomly extracted sentences from the Encarta encyclopedia. A discussion of related research is also presented.
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van Delden, S., Gomez, F. (2006). Improving Inter-level Communication in Cascaded Finite-State Partial Parsers. In: Yli-Jyrä, A., Karttunen, L., Karhumäki, J. (eds) Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing. FSMNLP 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4002. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11780885_25
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