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  <Title>Guiding a Well-Founded Parser with Corpus Statistics</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We present a parsing system built from a hand-written lexicon ~ and grammar, and trained on a selection of the Brown Corpus. On the sentences it can parse, the parser performs as well as purely corpus-based parsers. Its advantage lies in the fact that its syntactic analyses readily support semantic interpretation. Moreover, the system's hand-written foundation allows for a more fully lexicalized probabilistic model, i.e.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> one sensitive to co-occurrence of lexical heads of phrase constituents.</Paragraph>
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