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  <Title>The Use of Instrumentation in Grammar Engineering</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The field of Computational Linguistics (CL) has 1ooth moved towards applications and towards large data sets. These developments (:all for a rigorous methodology for creating so-called lingware: linguistic data such as lexica, grammars, tree-banks, as well as software processing it. Experience fl'om Soft;ware Engineering has shown that the earlier deficiencies are detected, the less costly their correction is. Rather than being a post-development effort, quality ewduation must be an integral part of development to make the construction of lingware more eifieient (e.g., cf. (EAGLES, 1996) fbr a general evahmtion fl'amework and (Ciravegna et al., 1998) for the application of a particular software design nlethodology to linguistic engineering). This paper presents the adaptation of a particular Software Engineering (SE) method, illstrmnentation, to Grmmnar Engineering (GE). Instrumentation allows to determine which test item exercises a certain piece of (software or grammar) code.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The paper first describes the use of instrumentation in SE, then discusses possible realizations in unification grammars, and finally presents two classes of al)l)lications.</Paragraph>
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