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In this chapter we summarize the results of the HPSG English grammar project for analysis and generation in Verbmobil, housed at CSLI, Stanford University. After providing a description of the design and implementation of the grammar, we give an overview of the linguistic phenomena encountered in the Verbmobil domains, show the results of an evaluation of the grammar measured against transcribed spoken language data, and then point to next steps in the development of the grammar.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the framework of the Verbmobil Project under Grant FKZ:01iV401. We also appreciate the significant contributions made to the project by several former Stanford graduate students, especially Rob Malouf and Emily Bender, as well as the many other LinGO project participants over the past several years. And we have benefited greatly from our long-standing collaboration with Stephan Oepen, a rare Saarbrücken colleague who was not funded by Verbmobil.
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Flickinger, D., Copestake, A., Sag, I.A. (2000). HPSG Analysis of English. In: Wahlster, W. (eds) Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-to-Speech Translation. Artificial Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04230-4_18
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