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Linguistic Specifications for Future Industrial Standards

Time Span: 1994 - 1995
Commission of the European Communities (MLAP)
F. Van Eynde & A. Schoenmakers
Other participants: Institut für Angewandte Informationsforschung (Saarbrücken), Gruppo Dima (Torino), Centre for Computational Linguistics (Manchester), Department of Language and Linguistics (Essex), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), TALANA (Paris), P-E International (Surrey)

An evaluation of the results of the Eurotra project in 1992 revealed that one of the project's main achievements was the creation of detailed and formalised linguistic specifications. These specifications were documented extensively in a regularly updated Reference Manual. However, since the formalism which had been used for implementing these specifications (the ETS-formalism) was abandoned when the project finished, the specifications ran the risk of oblivion. In order to avoid this the Commision launched this project whose main aim is (1) to make the Eurotra linguistic specifications usable for implementation in current mainstream NLP formalisms, esp. the ones which employ Typed Feature Structures (2) to integrate the linguistic research which has been carried out in the Eurotra project and other related projects after the publication of the last Reference Manual (1991).

The resulting specifications are made available in the form of a Reference Manual and are used as a general framework for the elaboration of language specific descriptions and implementations. The latter takes place in the framework of a number of monolingual projects. One of these projects is MODUL.

• F. Van Eynde & P. Schmidt (eds.), Linguistic Specifications for Typed Feature Structure Formalisms. Studies in Machine Translation and Natural Language Processing. Volume 10. Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 1998, 344 pages.
• Tense, aspect and negation. In: F. Van Eynde & P. Schmidt (eds.), Linguistic Specifications for Typed Feature Structure Formalisms. Studies in Machine Translation and Natural Language Processing. Volume 10. Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 1998, pp. 209-280.

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