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| Challenge: | a corpus-reader module supports popular corpora, feature extraction and annotation modules for semantic and syntactic tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a library that provides modules to address different challenges . they provide a corpus-reader module that supports popular corpora in the NLP community . |
| Outcome: | The proposed library simplifies the process of design and development of NLP applications by providing modules to address different challenges. |
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