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  <Title>The Effect of Rhythm on Structural Disambiguation in Chinese</Title>
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6 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper, we systematically survey the distribution of rhythm (number of syllables per word or numbers of words per phrase for a constituent) in different constructions in Chinese. Our analysis suggests that rhythm places strong constraints on Chinese syntax. Based on this observation, we used the rhythm feature in a practical shallow parsing task in which a PCFG model is augmented with a probabilistic representation of the rhythm feature. The experimental results show that the probabilistic rhythm feature aids in disambiguation in Chinese and thus helps to improve the performance of a Chinese parser. We can expect that the performance of the parser may further improve when more features are considered under the probabilistic feature (PF) model.</Paragraph>
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