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<Paper uid="P98-1085">
  <Title>Definiteness Predictions for Japanese Noun Phrases*</Title>
  <Section position="8" start_page="524" end_page="524" type="concl">
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6 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper, we have developed an efficient algorithm for the assignment of definiteness attributes to Japanese noun phrases that makes use of syntactic and semantic information.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Within the domain of appointment scheduling, the integration of our rule hierarchy reduces the need for computationally expensive context checking to 20,5% of all relevant noun phrases, as 79,5% are already assigned a value with a precision of 98,9%.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> Even though the current framework is to a large extent domain specific, we believe that it may be easily extended to other domains by adding appropriate rules.</Paragraph>
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