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PCFG Approximations
•Tradeoff between:
–Context sensitivity:
•"I has", "man have" – subject-verb agreement
•"I, for one, has…" "man over there have"
–Memory, acquisition of sufficient training examples
•Compromise: weighted sum of unigram, bigram, and trigram models