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  <Title>THE PARALLEL EXE~ERT PARSER (PEP): A THOROUGHLY %~IVISED DESCENDAN'~ OF THE WORD EXPERT PARSEI% (WEP)</Title>
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5. Conclusions and furthez res~aEch
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper we have presented a further development of the procedural view of natural language analysis (NLU) as proposed by Small's Word Expert Parser. The Parallel Expert Parser tries to present a truly distributed and parallel model of NLU with clearly defined experts on different levels, hierarchically conceived expert frames and rigidly restricted communication protocols.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Besides polishing the implementation and writing/testing more complex experts, we also intend to look further into the necessary model of knowledge (concept) representation that has to con~lete our framework and how it can be tuned to PEP's needs. We hope that our attempt at realizing parallelism in the domain of NLU will enhance our overall understanding of the fascinating but as yet still poorly understood domain of parallel computing.</Paragraph>
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