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The paper explores the issues of universal computational formalisms and reusable developer environment as applied to rule-based NLP. It suggests a portable grammar framework and modular NLP architecture that by combining certain modules can be reused for different unilingual and multilingual applications through a universal developer environment. The developer environment includes a lexicon shell with flexible settings to define, among others, tag descriptions, entry structures, depth of knowledge, and a number of compilers with universal rule-writing formalisms. The formalisms and compilers described have been successfully used (in different combinations and with different depth of analysis) in a number of unilingual and multilingual applications that involved English, Danish, French and Russian.
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It might not always be the case as there are applications that skip phrase chunking and work directly on lexicon tags.
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Sheremetyeva, S. (2018). Universal Computational Formalisms and Developer Environment for Rule-Based NLP. In: Gelbukh, A. (eds) Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing. CICLing 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10761. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77113-7_5
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