@InProceedings{Fliedner:2002,
      AUTHOR = {Fliedner, Gerhard},
      TITLE = {A System for Checking NP Agreement in German Texts},
      YEAR = {2002},
      BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'02), July 6-12. Companion Volume of the Conference Proceedings. Proceedings of the Student Workshop, Demonstration Abstracts and Tutorial Abstracts},
      PAGES = {12-17},
      ADDRESS = {University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia},
      URL = {http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/acl2002/STUDENT/pdfs/Student887.pdf},
      ABSTRACT = {In this paper, we describe the design, implementation, and evalutation of a system for checking NP agreement in German texts. We use shallow parsing based on finite state automata in combination with constraint relaxation and a method for parse ranking based on optimality theory. The system's grammar was developed and tested over a reference corpus of about 800,000 words to ensure robustness and broad coverage. When evaluated against a corpus of approximately 200,000 words, the system reached recall and precision values around the 67,\% mark.}
}