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Based on the arguments presented in this paper, there is good reason to believe that natural language parsing, in its initial syntactic stage, does not need:
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a highly structured lexicon
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empty categories or trace elements, or
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the goal of describing only the grammatical structures of a language.
As discussed here, experience in developing PEG, the grammatical component of a real-world language processing system, supports this position. Large-scale, real-world systems can be helpful in assessing the usefulness, and degree of validity, of theoretical linguistic claims.
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Jensen, K. (1988). Issues in parsing. In: Blaser, A. (eds) Natural Language at the Computer. IBM 1988. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 320. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-50011-1_33
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