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<Paper uid="P92-1002">
  <Title>AN ALGORITHM FOR VP ELLIPSIS</Title>
  <Section position="18" start_page="304" end_page="304" type="concl">
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CONCLUSIONS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> To interpret an elliptical expression it is necessary to determine the antecedent expression, after which a method of reconstructing the antecedent expression at the ellipsis site is required. While the literature on VP ellipsis contains a vast array of proposals concerning the proper method of reconstructing a given antecedent for an elliptical VP, there has been little attention to the question of determining the antecedent.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> In this paper, I have proposed a solution to this problem; I have described an algorithm that determines the antecedent for elliptical VP's. It was shown that the algorithm achieves 94% accuracy on 304 examples of VP ellipsis collected from the Brown Corpus. Many of the failure cases appear to be due to the interaction of VPE with other anaphoric phenomena, and others may be cases of genuine ambiguity.</Paragraph>
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