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  <Title>Chunking with Maximum Entropy Models</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper I discuss a first attempt to create a text chunker using a Maximum Entropy model.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The first experiments, implementing classifiers that tag every word in a sentence with a phrasetag using very local lexical information, part-of-speech tags and phrase tags of surrounding words, give encouraging results.</Paragraph>
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