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  <Title>Shallow Parsing as Part-of-Speech Tagging*</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Shallow parsing has received a reasonable amount of attention in the last few years (for example (Ramshaw and Marcus, 1995)). In this paper, instead of modifying some existing technique, or else proposing an entirely new approach, we decided to build a shallow parser using an off-the-shelf part-of-speech (POS) tagger. We deliberately did not modify the POS tagger's internal operation in any way. Our results suggested that achieving reasonable shallow-parsing performance does not in general require anything more elaborate than a simple POS tagger. However, an error analysis suggested the existence of a small set of constructs that are not so easily characterised by finite-state approaches such as ours.</Paragraph>
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