@inproceedings{garman-etal-1993-principle,
    title = "A Principle-based Parser for Foreign Language Training in {G}erman and {A}rabic",
    author = "Garman, Joe  and
      Martin, Jeffery  and
      Merlo, Paola  and
      Weinberg, Amy",
    editor = "Bunt, Harry  and
      Berwick, Robert  and
      Church, Ken  and
      Joshi, Aravind  and
      Kaplan, Ronald  and
      Kay, Martin  and
      Lang, Bernard  and
      Nagao, Makoto  and
      Nijholt, Anton  and
      Steedman, Mark  and
      Thompson, Henry  and
      Tomita, Masaru  and
      Vijay-Shanker, K.  and
      Wilks, Yorick  and
      Wittenburg, Kent",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Parsing Technologies",
    month = aug # " 10-13",
    year = "1993",
    address = "Tilburg, Netherlands and Durbuy, Belgium",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/Add-Cong-Liu-Florida-Atlantic-University-author-id/1993.iwpt-1.8/",
    pages = "73--88",
    abstract = "In this paper we discuss the design and implementation of a parser for German and Arabic, which is currently being used in a tutoring system for foreign language training. Computer-aided language tutoring is a good application for testing the robustness and flexibility of a parsing system, since the input is usually ungrammatical in some way. Efficiency is also a concern, as tutoring applications typically run on personal computers, with the parser sharing memory with other components of the system. Our system is principle-based, which ensures a compact representation, and improves portability, needed in order to extend the initial design from German to Arabic and (eventually) Spanish. Currently, the parser diagnoses agreement errors, case errors, selection errors, and some word order errors. The parser can handle simple and complex declaratives and questions, topicalisations, verb movement, relative clauses {---} broad enough coverage to be useful in the design of real exercises and dialogues."
}