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  <Title>Hybrid Text Chunking</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The idea of using statistics for chunking goes back to Church(1988), who used corpus frequencies to determine the boundaries of simple non-recursive noun phrases. Skut and Brants(1998) modified Church's approach in a way permitting efficient and reliable recognition of structures of limited depth and encoded the structure in such a way that it can be recognised by a Viterbi tagger. Our approach follows Skut and Brants' way by employing HMM-based tagging method to model the chunking process.</Paragraph>
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