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  <Title>CONCEPT-ORIENTED PARSING OF DEFINITIONS</Title>
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3. Usefulness
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The parser described here tries to serve a twofold aim. In the first place its aim is p_~aJ_Citl. By making definitions conceptually explicit it is first of all possible to enhance the access to data bases (by making search items available in a systematic way). Secondly because of the fact that definitional knowledge becomes available in a systematic way, it also becomes possible now to generate from pilrtial conceptual knowledge (answering such questions as: what is the term for the disease caused by HIV?, how is the disease affecting the immune system called ? etc.). Finally, by yielding 'semantically relational knowledge', syntactically ambinuous structures can be more readily solved (think of PP-attachment, cf. he treated the children with epilepsy).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> In the second place the system-cure-parser was set up as a pilot project in order to shed some light Oll such notions as lexicon ~tructure and (power of) conceat-oriented parsing. Judging from the results obtained up till now, we dare say that, with regard to the former, a relational-conceptual model of the lexicon offers interesting perspectives (although we still have to tackle in more detail such problems as concept disjunction and non-monotonic default reasoning), and that, with regard to the parsing, in as far as analytical definitions reflect a conceptual structure, syntactic problems in parsing become by far more feasible to overcome.</Paragraph>
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