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  <Title>An Information Extraction Core System for Real World German Text Processing</Title>
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9 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have described an information extraction core system for real world German text processing. The basic design criterion of the system is of providing a set of basic powerful, robust, and efficient natural language components and generic linguistic knowledge sources which can easily be customized for processing different tasks in a flexible manner. The main features are: a very efficient and robust morphological component, a powerful tool for expressing finite state expressions, a flexible bidirectional shallow parser, as well as a flexible interface to an advanced formalism for typed feature formalisms. The system has been fully implemented in Common Lisp and C.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Future research will focus towards automatic adaption and acquisition methods, e.g., automatic extraction of subgrammars from a competence base and learning methods for domain-specific extraction patterns.</Paragraph>
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