Parsing can be defined as the decomposition of complex structures into their constituent parts, and parsing technology as the methods, the tools, and the software to parse automatically. This book contains contributions from many of today's leading researchers in the area of natural language parsing technology.

Developments in Parsing Technology: From Theory to Application.- Parameter Estimation for Statistical Parsing Models: Theory and Practice of Distribution-Free Methods.- High Precision Extraction of Grammatical Relations.- Automated Extraction of Tags from the Penn Treebank.- Computing the Most Probable Parse for a Discontinuous Phrase Structure Grammar.- A Neural Netword Parser that Handles Sparse Data.- An Efficient LR Parser Generator for Tree-Adjoining Grammars.- Relating Tabular Parsing Algorithms for LIG and TAG.- Improved Left-Corner Chart Parsing for Large Context-Free Grammars.- On Two Classes of Feature Paths in Large-Scale Unification Grammars.- A Context-Free Superset Approximation of Unification-Based Grammars.- A Recognizer for Minimalist Languages.- Range Concatenation Grammars.- Grammar Induction by MDL-Based Distributional Classification.- Optimal Ambiguity Packing in Context-Free Parsers with Interleaved Unification.- Robust Data Oriented Spoken Language Understanding.- Soup: A Parser for Real-World Spontaneous Speech.- Parsing and Hypergraphs.- Measure for Measure: Towards Increased Component Comparability and Exchange.

From the reviews: "New Developments in Parsing Technology is a collection of papers based on contributions to the International workshop on Parsing Technology in the years 2000 and 2001. … Collin’s invited contribution is so outstanding that it alone makes it worthwhile to get hold of a copy of the book. Each of the selected workshop papers is a worthwhile read in itself … ." (Stefan Riezler, Computational Linguistics, Vol. 32 (3), 2006)

Contains contributions from many of today's leading researchers in the area of natural language parsing technology Describes the contributors' most recent work and a diverse range of techniques and results Provides an excellent picture of the current state of affairs in this area