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In natural language processing, linguistic representations, such as syntactic representations, have long been in the service of improving the output of information retrieval systems, such as search engines and machine translation systems. Recently, in
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Lectures on Contemporary Syntactic Theories: An Introduction to Government-Binding Theory, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, and Lexical-Function Grammar
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to represent linguistic information about the utterance, such as information about
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Other representations in linguistics that are not symbols or measurements include
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Improving Natural Language Processing by Linguistic Document Annotation
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before they are transformed into several other representations:
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Symbolic representations are widely used in linguistics. In
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Symbolic linguistic representations are frequently used in
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utterance
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