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  <Title>PORTING TO NEW DOMAINS USING THE LEARNER *m</Title>
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CONCLUSION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have demonstrated that it is possible to use Learner output to produce information that is usable in the BBN ACFG system. This result is remarkable for a number of reasons. First, it suggests that the great boost in productivity reported in (Bates, 1989) by using the Learner to port the Parlance system may be extended to the ACFG system. Since the ACFG system is based on a unification grammar and parser, this, in turn, suggests that the Learner might be useful for other unification-base systems. Since the Learner was designed with the Parlance system in mind, the fact that its output is usable by a system based on a radically different grammar formalism and parsing algorithm may indicate that there has been a sufficient convergence in syntactic and analytic techniques, at least in the database retrieval area, to allow tools developed for one framework or system to be useful to others, as well.</Paragraph>
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