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  <Title>Processing Complex Sentences in the Centering Framework</Title>
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5 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper, we gave a specification for handling complex sentences in the centering model based on the functional information structure of utterances in discourse. We motivated our proposal by the constraints which hold for a free word order language (German) and derived our results from data-intensive empirical studies of real texts of different types.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Some issues remain open: the evaluation of the functional approach for languages with fixed word order, a fine-grained analysis of subordinate clauses as Suri &amp; McCoy (1994) presented for SX because SY clauses, and, in general, the solution for the cases which cause errors in our evaluation.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Acknowledgments. This work has been funded by LGFG Baden-Wiirttemberg. I would like to thank my colleagues in the CPS27~&amp;quot; group for fruitful discussions. I would also like to thank Jon Alcantara (Cambridge) who kindly took the role of the native speaker via Internet.</Paragraph>
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