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  <Title>Anaphora for Everyone: Pronominal Anaphora Resolution without a Parser</Title>
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5 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Lappin and Leass' algorithm for pronominal anaphora resolution is capable of high accuracy, but requires indepth, full, syntactic parsing of text. The modifications of that algorithm that we have developed make it available to a larger set of text processing frameworks, as we assume a considerably 'poorer' analysis substrate.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> While adaptations to the input format and interpretation procedures have necessarily addressed the issues of coping with a less rich level of linguistic analysis, there is only a small compromise in the quality of the results. Our evaluation indicates that the problems with the current implementation do not stem from the absence of a parse, but rather from factors which can be addressed within the constraints imposed by the shallow base analysis. The overall success of the algorithm is important, then, not only for the immediate utility of the particular modifications, but also because the strategy we have developed for circumventing the need for full syntactic analysis is applicable to other interpretation tasks which, like the problem of anaphora resolution, lie in the space of higher level semantic and discourse analysis.</Paragraph>
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