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  <Title>An Information Extraction Core System for Real World German Text Processing</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> This paper describes SMES, an information extraction core system for real world German text processing. The basic design criterion of the system is of providing a set of basic powerful, robust, and efficient natural language components and generic linguistic knowledge sources which can easily be customized for processing different tasks in a flexible manner.</Paragraph>
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