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  <Title>Combining Functionality and Ob\]ec~Orientedness for Natural Language Processing</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper proposes a method for organizing linguistic knowledge in both systematic and flexible fashion. We introduce a purely applicative language (PAL) as an intermediate representation and an object-oriented computation mechanism for its interpretation. PAL enables the establishment of a principled and well-constrained method of interaction among lexicon-oriented linguistic modules. The object-oriented computation mechanism provides a flexible means of abstracting modules and sharing common knowledge.</Paragraph>
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