the novel non-determistic tokenisation method which was first presented in Tapanainen (1995) and Chanod and Tapanainen (1996a), the formalism for presenting multiword units which was first presented in Tapanainen (1995) and Segond and Tapanainen (1995), the combination of the tokenisation, multiword unit recognition, lexical analysis and syntactic analysis, and the syntactic disambiguation engine which is similar to that in Tapanainen (1997)

The 200 million word corpus of the Bank of English was annotated morphologically and syntactically using the English Constraint Grammar analyser, a rulebased shallow parser developed at the Research Unit for Computational Linguistics, University of Helsinki. We discuss the annotation system and methods used in the corpus work, as well as the theoretical assumptions of the Constraint Grammar syntax. Based on our experience in large-scale corpus work, we argue for a deeper and more explicit, dependency-based syntactic representation. We present a new practical parsing system, the Functional Dependency Grammar parser, developed from the Constraint Grammar system, and discuss its suitability for treebank annotation.

This paper presents IDAZKIDE, a prototype of an intelligent language learning environment (ICALL) for learners of Basque. The philosophy of the system is to make different Natural Language Processing tools simultaneously accessible to students to help them (mainly at the morphological level) to write in Basque, as well as to give advice, taking into account some characteristics of the student gathered in a student model.

Taking as a starting-point the development on cooccurrence techniques for several languages, we focus on the aspects that should be considered in a NV extraction task for Basque. In Basque, NV expressions are considered those combinations in which a noun, inflected or not, is co-occurring with a verb, as erabakia hartu (‘to make a decision’), kontuan hartu (‘to take into account’) and buruz jakin (‘to know by heart’). A basic extraction system has been developed and evaluated against two references: a) a reference which includes NV entries from several lexicographic works; and b) a manual evaluation by three experts of a random sample from the n-best lists. 1

E-Hitz: A word frequency list and a program for deriving psycholinguistic statistics in an agglutinative language (Basque)