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I wrote:
Syntactic parsing is a basic task in natural language processing and the grammar plays a crucial role in this ??.
First I would like to know how to fill the gap (??). I thought of "regard", "respect", "task", "ground", or nothing and just "this".
Second I don't know if I should use "the grammar" or "grammars" or maybe "grammar" here.
I would omit both the "the" (since you refer to grammar in general) and the "??". You could maybe even use a comma, so that the sentence could be:
Syntactic parsing is a basic task in natural language processing, and grammar plays a crucial role in this.
