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@INPROCEEDINGS{Abney96statisticalmethods,
    author = {Steven Abney and Steven Abney},
    title = {Statistical Methods and Linguistics},
    booktitle = {The Balancing Act: Combining Symbolic and Statistical Approaches to Language},
    year = {1996},
    pages = {1--26},
    publisher = {MIT Press}
}

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is unusual as a mass noun, but can in fact be used as one, as for example in the article consisted of three pages of abstract and only two pages of actual text. One might object that the NP headed by might is bad because of the multiple postmodifiers, but in fact there is no absolute constraint against stacking nominal postmodifiers, and good examples can be constructed with the same structure: marlinespikes, business end up, sprinkled with tabasco sauce, can be a powerful deterrent against pigeons. Even the commas are not absolutely required. The strength of preference for them depends on how heavy the modifiers are: cf. strength judicially applied increases the effectiveness of diplomacy, a cup of peanuts unshelled in the stock adds character. 3 In short, the structure (3) seems to be best characterized as grammatical, though it violates any number of parsing preferences and is completely absurd. One might think that one could eliminate ambiguities by turning some of the dispref...

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