... used to exploit syn-tactic dependencies. The processing advantages of the finite-state encoding of the model has allowedfor the use of probabilities calculated off-line fromthis model to be ... it is either to the left or right of HCP, and iseither adjacent or non-adjacent to HCP. We denotethese positional features as an integer, positive if to the right, negative if to the left, ... equivalent to the modelin Eq. 2. Second, we restrict the remaining featuresΦ2(a, w) . . . Φd(a, w) to be sensitive to the stringw alone.2In this sense, the scope of this paper islimited to the...