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the applicability of our approach for other languages. This should allow us to evaluate
the relative efficiency of the system in language dependency. There are cases where
nouns cannot be extracted by this approach. However, we believe that our approach
can be used to extract present component-integral part-whole relation from a well
balanced-corpus to help building resources like WordNet or an ontology in a given
language. For applications requiring sentence-based semantics, the approach needs to
be modified in order to cover sentences containing nouns with a part-whole relation,
but whose head and tail are separated by one or several nouns.
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