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  <Title>An HPSG-Based Generator for German An Experiment in the Reusability of Linguistic Resources</Title>
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1 Introduction
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    <Paragraph position="0"> A main obstacle for the successfifl application of N I,P is the necessary effort in terms of deve|opinent and adaptation time. One possible answer to this problem is the use of generic and modula.r software. An example fbr a software system develot)e.d with this goal in mind is the FUF generator (l~lhadnd, 1991), a well-documented public domain software written in IASI: ). Still, it is no straightforward task to employ that, kind of software for new applications. Another important step is the declarative definition of linguistic data (grammar and lexicon) which also fa(:ilit~tes reuse in another setting. The reuse of existing resources does not only save efforts but, to a hopeflflly much minor extent, also creates new tasks to be solved, i.e. the integration of resources not having been *The work reported here h,~s been carried out within tit('. I;t/E Project U/ST (LRM 062-09) and funded by the Austrian t;brschungsfdrderungsfonds dcr (lcwcrblichcn Wirtsch@, Grant 2/329. l&amp;quot;inan(tim support for the Austrian Research Institute for ArtiticiM \[ntelligence is provided by the Austrian 13undesministerium fiir Wisscnschaft, Forschung und Kunst.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> designed to work together, llow this can be done in an organized way is the topic of this paper.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> The work being described here was done in t, he context of a multilinguM text generation system.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> One Of the ohjectives of the project is to rouse ex-isting resources for those subtasks for which at&gt; propriate resources exist, l,'or the German tactical generator 1 an irnph;mentation of an HPS(, '~ style gramrm~r of (\]erman (used for parsing and genre&gt; ation, but on a different software platform) was available inhouse. ~l)he I&amp;quot;UI ? generator was chosen as the core component of t.he system.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4"> However, two problems had to be solved before FUI&amp;quot; could be used for the planned purpose. One was the Net that li'UF, dew, loped for English, has no suitM)le morphologicM conlponent for the rich inflection of German. X2MorF (Trost, 1991), an avMlahle morphologicM component had go be iH tegrated with the FUI e generator for this purpose.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="5"> The other probh;m was that the existing HPS(L inspired gramrna.r of German could not be directly ported to the FUF formMisln.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="6"> Before we describe the integration task we will briefly sketch the mMn characteristics of these resources, emphasizing those aspects which either cause problems lbr integration or provide the means for perfi)rrning the integration task.</Paragraph>
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