usesoftheLinGOresourceswithotherCSLIindustrialaf- liatecompanies.

BoththeLinGOgrammarandtheLKBcontinuetobeactivelydeveloped.Besidesworkdescribedabove,ourcur-rentandplannedresearchisfocusedinthefollowingareas:

extendingthelexiconthroughadaptationofexistinglexicalresourcesandthroughacquisitionfromcorporausingcorporaasanadditionalinformationsourceinlanguagegeneration

incorporatingstatisticaldataderivedfromcorporatocopewiththeambiguityinherentinwide-coveragegrammars

buildingexploratorygrammarsforotherlanguagesandinvestigatingtheextenttowhichgrammarscanbeshared

representingdialectvariationinboththelexiconandthegrammar

developingdiscoursemodelswhichinteractwiththegrammarinparticulartoallowtreatmentoffragments

6.Acknowledgments

DevelopmentoftheLKBsystemwasoriginallysup-portedbyACQUILEXprojectsBRA-3030and7315undertheEspritprogram(granttoCambridgeUniversity).MorerecentresearchhasbeensupportedbytheNationalSci-enceFoundationundergrantnumberIRI-9612682(granttoStanfordUniversity).DevelopmentoftheLinGOERGwassupportedbyNSFIRI-9612682andbyGermanFed-eralMinistryofEducation,Science,ResearchandTech-nology(BMBF)intheframeworkoftheVerbmobilProjectunderGrantFKZ:01iV401.

ThemaindevelopersoftheLKBsystemareAnnCopestake,JohnCarroll(UniversityofSussex),RobMal-ouf(UniversityofGroningen)andStephanOepen(Saar-landUniversity).Thedistributedsystemalsoincorpo-ratescodewrittenbyBernieJones(whileatCambridge),DanFlickingerandJohnBowler.TedBriscoeandAn-tonioSan lippohadagreatdealofin uenceonthede-signoftheoriginalsystemforACQUILEX,DanFlickingerplayedasimilarroleforthenewversion.UlrichCallmeier(DFKIandSaarlandUniversity)hasdoneextensivetest-inganduncoverednumerousbugsandinfelicities.VictorPoznanski(SharpLaboratoriesofEurope)helpeddevelopthegenerationalgorithm,GuidoMinnen(Sussex)andSte-fanThater(SaarlandUniversity)haveinvestigatedcorpus-derivedconstraintsongeneration.

TheLinGOERGwasmainlydevelopedbyDanFlickinger,RobMalouf,EmilyBenderandJeffSmith(SanJoseStateUniversity).SeveralStanfordstudents(BradyClark,JudithTonhauser,KathrynCampbell-Kibler,Mar-tinaFaller,AshAsudeh,SusanneRiehemann)andvisit-ingstudents(JesseTseng,Edinburgh;KenBame,OhioState;JudithEckle-Kohler,Stuttgart;MartineSmets,cur-rentlyatSussex)havealsodonedetailedwork,includ-ingbuildingthelexicon,developingtestsuites,isolat-ingphenomenafoundincorporaanddevelopinganaly-sesintheHPSGformalism.IvanSag,TomWasowand

CarlPollardprovidedtheoreticalinsights.AnaQuirinoSimoes(Bielefeld),ChrisCallison-Burch,AlineVillavi-cencio(Cambridge)andJudithBaur(SaarlandUniversity)havedevelopedothergrammarswhichhaveledtoimprove-mentsintheLKBsystemandalternativeanalysesfortheERG.Seehttp://lingo.stanford.edu/members.htmlforafulllistofLinGOprojectaf liates.

Invaluableinputhasofcoursealsobeenprovidedbytheindividualsmentionedorcitedinthetextandbyotherpeopletoonumeroustothankindividually,includingre-searchersontheACQUILEXandLinGOprojects,attheCopenhagenBusinessSchool,SaarlandUniversity,Univer-sityofEssex,EdinburghUniversity,UniversityofCam-bridgeandStanfordUniversityandstudentsonacoursetaughtbyCopestake,FlickingerandOepenatESSLLI-98.

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