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  <Title>Rochemont, Michael S., and Culicover,</Title>
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5. Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> As we have mentioned in Section 3, our algorithm does not cover all cases of TFA occurring in English sentences. For the present stage of research, it has been possible to account only for the primary shape of sentence structure (the verb with its arguments and free modifications) and for the prototypical cases of TFA.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Future research in the domain of automatic processing of TFA thus may concentrate on solving further problems connected with secondary cases. Above all, this concerns the following points in which a more general procedure could be formulated: (i) The procedure should also take into account deeper embedded sentence parts (embedded verb clauses, modifiers in noun groups, etc.). Criteria to decide on these sentence parts being CB or NB will make it necessary to work with a detailed semantic classification of lexical items and to take into account the analysis of preceding co-text. (ii) Such &amp;quot;focus-sensitive adverbs&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;focalizers&amp;quot; as only, also, even, mostly, negation, etc. (see Section I and footnote 1)should be considered, since their foci may differ  Computational Linguistics Volume 21, Number 1 from the focus of the sentence as a whole (although in the prototypical case such a difference does not occur).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> (iii) If a semantic comparison of lexical items with those present in the preceding utterances of the discourse is made possible (see point (i)), then the cases of ambiguity resulting from the procedure could be considerably reduced. In any case, for practical applications it will be necessary to work with preferences, excluding the least probable readings.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> (iv) One of the most promising prospects is to join a procedure of the kind described in the present paper with an acoustic analysis of spoken discourse, in which the position of the intonation center could be determined as one of the important factors.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> We hope, however, that the procedure outlined in the present paper can serve as one of the starting points both for a comparison of the views on TFA based on dependency and on other syntactic theories and for achieving a relatively complete algorithmic analysis of TFA as that dimension of the sentence structure which permits a characterization of the sentence in its fundamental interactive nature.</Paragraph>
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