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  <Title>Learning the Meaning and Usage of Time Phrases from a Parallel Text-Data Corpus</Title>
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7 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> To conclude, we believe that parallel text-data corpora are a valuable resource for investigating lexical semantic and pragmatic issues, and can help shed valuable light on the fundamental question of how words relate to the non-linguistic world. We have described in detail how we have used such a corpus to analyse the meaning and usage of time phrases in weather forecasts, and also sketched our current work on other analyses of text-data corpora.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> We hope that other researchers interested in semantics and pragmatics will find our techniques interesting, and consider whether they might be useful in exploring other semantic and pragmatic questions about word meaning usage.</Paragraph>
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