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  <Title>An Improved Parser for Data-Oriented Lexical-Functional Analysis</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We present an LFG-DOP parser which uses fragments from LFG-annotated sentences to parse new sentences. Experiments with the Verbmobil and Homecentre corpora show that (1) Viterbi n best search performs about 100 times faster than Monte Carlo search while both achieve the same accuracy; (2) the DOP hypothesis which states that parse accuracy increases with increasing fragment size is confirmed for LFG-DOP; (3) LFG-DOP's relative frequency estimator performs worse than a discounted frequency estimator; and  (4) LFG-DOP significantly outperforms Tree-DOP if evaluated on tree structures only.</Paragraph>
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