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Recognition of Syntactic Structure by Computer

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BROSS1 claims that our article on the recognition of syntactic structure by computer2 is refuted by its first sentence. Had he read the rest of the article with equal care he would have seen that this is not the case.

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  1. Bross, I. D. J., Nature, 217, 1078 (1968).

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  2. Bratley, P., Dewar, H., and Thorne, J. P., Nature, 216, 969 (1967).

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  3. Bratley, P., and Dakin, J., in Machine Intelligence 2 (edit. by Dale, E., and Michie, D.), 173 (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, 1968).

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BRATLEY, P., DEWAR, H. & THORNE, J. Recognition of Syntactic Structure by Computer. Nature 218, 790 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/218790a0

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