@inproceedings{zajac-amtrup-2000-modular,
    title = "Modular Unification-based Parsers",
    author = "Zajac, R{\'e}mi  and
      Amtrup, Jan",
    editor = "Lavelli, Alberto  and
      Carroll, John  and
      Berwick, Robert C.  and
      Bunt, Harry C.  and
      Carpenter, Bob  and
      Carroll, John  and
      Church, Ken  and
      Johnson, Mark  and
      Joshi, Aravind  and
      Kaplan, Ronald  and
      Kay, Martin  and
      Lang, Bernard  and
      Lavie, Alon  and
      Nijholt, Anton  and
      Samuelsson, Christer  and
      Steedman, Mark  and
      Stock, Oliviero  and
      Tanaka, Hozumi  and
      Tomita, Masaru  and
      Uszkoreit, Hans  and
      Vijay-Shanker, K.  and
      Weir, David  and
      Wiren, Mats",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies",
    month = feb # " 23-25",
    year = "2000",
    address = "Trento, Italy",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2000.iwpt-1.27/",
    pages = "278--290",
    abstract = "We present an implementation of the notion of modularity and composition applied to unification based grammars. Monolithic unification grammars can be decomposed into sub-grammars with well defined interfaces. Sub-grammars are applied in a sequential manner at runtime, allowing incremental development and testing of large coverage grammars. The modular approach to grammar development leads us away from the traditional view of parsing a string of input symbols as the recognition of some start symbol, and towards a richer and more flexible view where inputs and outputs share the same structural properties."
}