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'The Evaluation of Parsing Systems'

at the 1^st International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation,

Granada, Spain, May 1998.

The proceedings are available (in printed form only) as a technical report (Cognitive Science Research Paper 489, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, UK)

Contents:

• A survey of parser evaluation methods (Carroll & Briscoe);
• Evaluating a robust parser for Italian (Basili, Pazienza, Zanzotto);
• Chunking Itlian: linguistic and task-oriented evaluation (Federici, Montemagni, Pirrelli);
• Modifying existing annotated corpora for general comparative evaluation of parsing (Gaizauskas, Hepple, Huyck);
• Evaluation of the syntactic analysis component of an information extraction system for German (Klein, Declerck, Neumann);
• Dependency-based evaluation of MINIPAR (Lin); Evaluating parses for spoken language dialogue systems (Minker & Chase);
• A corpus for parse pruning (Muller-Landmann); The TOSCA parsing system reviewed (Oostdijk);
• Grammar and parser evaluation in the XTAG project (Srinivas et al).