The paper describes the development of software for automatic grammatical ana]ysi$ of unl~'Ui~, unedited English text at the Unit for Compm= Research on the Ev~li~h Language (UCREL) at the Univet~ of Lancaster. The work is ~n'nmtly funded by IBM and carried out in collaboration with colleagues at IBM UK (W'~) and IBM Yorktown Heights. The paper will focus on the lexicon component of the word raging system, the UCREL grammar, the datal~zlks of parsed sentences, and the tools that have been written to support developmem of these comlm~ems. ~ wozk has applications to speech technology, sl~lfing conectim, end other areas of natural lmlguage pngessil~ ~y, our goal is to provide a language model using transin'ca statistics to di.~.nbigu~ al.:mative 1~ for a speech.:a~nicim device. 1. Text Corpor...

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