| Challenge: | FreeLing is an open-source library for NLP with more than fifteen years of existence and a widespread user community. |
| Approach: | They propose to port RelaxCor to FreeLing to solve the integration problems . they propose to use two strategies and a rough evaluation of the integration results . |
| Outcome: | The proposed integration of RelaxCor into FreeLing solves the problems found in a shared task scenario. |
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