The hybrid method we developed relies on the parser Fips (Wehrli, 2004), that implements the Government and Binding formalism and supports several languages (besides the ones mentioned in 2 "Ideally, in order to identify lexical relations in a corpus one would need to first parse it to verify that the words are used in a single phrase structure.
in practice, freestyle texts contain a great deal of nonstandard features over which automatic parsers would fail.