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  <Title>An Alternative Conception of Tree-Adjoining Derivation*</Title>
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7 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The precise formulation of derivation for tree-adjoining grammars has important ramifications for a wide variety of uses of the formalism, from syntactic analysis to semantic interpretation and statistical language modeling. We have argued that the definition of tree-adjoining derivation must be reformulated in order to take greatest advantage of the decoupling of derivation tree and derived tree by manifesting the proper linguistic dependencies in derivations. The particular proposal is both precisely characterizable, through a compilation to linear indexed grammars, and computationally operational, by virtue of an efficient algorithm for recognition and parsing.</Paragraph>
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