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  <Title>The Role of Inversion and PP-Fronting In Relating Discourse Elements: some implications for cognitive and computational models of Natural Language Processing</Title>
  <Section position="7" start_page="172" end_page="172" type="concl">
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6, Concluslon
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have mo~ival, ed a heuristic device that consists of creating a llst of the NPs in each sentence. This wa~'~ motivated on linguistic grounds for non-SVO word or&lt;let. It weal suggested that this list could facilitate in the construction discourse ,'epresenl, ations and for resolving auaphora in a computer program. The latter of these two suggestions was investigated. It was found that iudeed a significant deere~se in processing time occurred.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The first of the two above hypothesis was ,lOt empirically investigated. One avenue of interesting research would be to see if the information provided by non-SVO word order could help in the construction of more complicated discourse rei&gt;reseatations and if such representations would help in are~m like Question-Answering.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> A second avenue of research would be in psycholinguistics.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> Basically experiments could be set up to test the hypothesis that non-SVO word order some how signals a search of the discourse space.</Paragraph>
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