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We present an overview of the HPSG grammar for the German deep analysis in Verbmobil. Especially, issues of using it for spontaneous speech processing in specific application domains will be discussed. Also, extra-linguistic information such as prosody has to be taken into account which is absent in written language. Finally, we present an empirical evaluation of the grammar with respect to the Verbmobil corpora.
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Müller, S., Kasper, W. (2000). HPSG Analysis of German. 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_17
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