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Approach: They propose a compositionality-aware approach to neural-symbolic inference informed by model confidence to capture different aspects of the graph prediction.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art models on an English resource grammar parsing problem on standard in-domain and seven OOD corpora.

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