LINGUIST List 3.685

Fri 11 Sep 1992

Sum: minimal commitment parsing

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1. Marjan Grootveld, summary: minimal commitment parsing

I would like to thank Tom Cornell, Bob Kuhn, Ben Macias and Michael Niv
for supplying the following "minimal commitment" references.

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The 1992 proceedings of the Association For Computational linguistics
have two papers: by Henderson and by Vijay-Shanker and Rogers.

Marjan Grootveld