In this paper we describe our experiences with a tool for the development and testing of natural language grammars called GTU (German: Grammatik-Testumgebumg; grammar test environment). GTU supports four grammar formalisms under a window-oriented user interface. Additionally, it contains a set of German test sentences covering various syntactic phenomena as well as three types of German lexicons that can be attached to a grammar via an integrated lexicon interface. What follows is a description of the experiences we gained when we used GTU as a tutoring tool for students and as an experimental tool for CL researchers. From these we will derive the features necessary for a future grammar workbench.
@article{arxiv.cmp-lg/9707010,
title = {Experiences with the GTU grammar development environment},
author = {Martin Volk and Dirk Richarz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cmp-lg/9707010},
year = {2008}
}