TR-I-0289 :December, 1992

Herbert S. Tropf

The German Grammar for ASURA

Abstract:In this report the German grammar for the ASURA system is described. It is mainly a documentation for maintenance and extension purposes. After an introduction a sketch of the grammar and its input from transfer is given. A few remarks are made about the generation engine. Then the main linguistic as well as technical aspects of the grammar are described. The last sections concern postprocesses, tools and performance. In the appendices attribute-value paths of the syntactic part of the rules and all generated sentences of the conference registration corpus are listed.