Shallow parsing

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Shallow parsing (also chunking, "light parsing") is an analysis of a sentence which identifies the constituents (noun groups, verbs, verb groups...), but does not specify their internal structure, nor their role in the main sentence.

It is a technique widely used in natural language processing. It is similar to the concept of lexical analysis for computer languages.

[edit] See also

• Parser

[edit] External links

• Chunking (Natural Language Toolkit)
• CRFChunker (Conditional Random Fields English Phrase Chunker)
• JTextPro (A Java-based Text Processing Toolkit)