@InProceedings{Becker_Frank:2002,
      AUTHOR = {Becker, Markus and Frank, Anette},
      TITLE = {A Stochastic Topological Parser of German},
      YEAR = {2002},
      BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'02), August 24 - September 1},
      ADDRESS = {Taipei, Taiwan},
      URL = {http://www.dfki.de/~frank/papers/Coling2002_Becker_Frank_245.ps},
      ABSTRACT = {We present a new approach to topological parsing for German which is corpus-based, and built on a simple model of probabilistic CFG parsing. The topological field model is a theory-neutral model of clausal syntax that provides a linguistically motivated, but flat macro structure for complex sentences. Topological structures are highly compatible with deep syntactic analysis, thus perfectly suited for seamless integration of shallow and deep NLP. Besides the practical aspect of developing a robust and accurate topological parser, we investigate to what extent topological structures can be handled by context-free probabilistic models, while trying to detect specific phenomena that require more sophisticated models. We discuss experiments with systematic variants of a topological treebank grammar, which yield competitive results.},
      ANNOTE = {COLIURL : Becker:2002:STP.pdf Becker:2002:STP.ps}
}