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This class comprises contiguous groups of words (tokens) that form a syntactically or semantically coherent unit within a sentence, typically below the sentence level. Instances of the class C16 Chunk capture intermediate linguistic structures sharing a common grammatical or semantic function, such as noun phrases, verb phrases, or adjectival phrases. They serve as building blocks between individual tokens and higher-level grammatical or semantic structures. They facilitate the identification and analysis of meaningful sub-sentential units that contribute to the overall syntactic organisation and interpretation of text.

In computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP), instances of Chunk are often used to support shallow parsing and named entity recognition (NER) by identifying noun or verb phrase boundaries without requiring a full syntactic parse.

Instances of the class C16 Chunk are not full syntactic constituents in a deep grammatical sense but rather practical linguistic groupings that aid in intermediate-level text analysis.

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