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Early general Constraint Grammar publications

• Karlsson, Fred (1990). "Constraint grammar as a framework for parsing running text". In: Karlgren, Hans (ed.), Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, volume 3, pp. 168-173, Helsinki, Finland.
• Karlsson et al. (1995), "Constraint Grammar - A Language-Independent System for Parsing Unrestricted Text". Mouton de Gruyter
• Chanod, Jean-Pierre and Pasi Tapanainen (1995). "Tagging French – comparing a statistical and a constraint-based method." In: Proceedings of the Seventh Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 149–156, Dublin, Ireland, March. ACL.
• Tapanainen, Pasi (1996). "The Constraint Grammar Parser CG-2". No 27, Publications of the Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki.

Some publications concerning VISL Constraint Grammar systems:

• Bick, Eckhard (2015). DanProof: Pedagogical Spell and Grammar Checking for Danish. In: Galia Angelova, Kalina Bontcheva & Ruslan Mitkov: Proceedings of RANLP 2015 (Hissar, Bulgaria, 7-9 Sept. 2015). pp. 55-62. ISSN 1313-8502, ISBN 781510813281
• Bick, Eckhard & Kristin Hagen & Anders Nøklestad (2015). Optimizing the Oslo-Bergen Tagger. In: Eckhard Bick & Kristin Hagen: Proceedings of Constraint Grammar - Methods, Tools and Applications (Workshop at NODALIDA 2015, May 11, 2015, Vilnius), Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings, No. 113. pp. 11-19. Linköping: LiU Electronic Press. ISBN 978-91-7519-037-2
• Bick, Eckhard & Tino Didriksen (2015). CG-3 - Beyond Classical Constraint Grammar. In: Beáta Megyesi: Proceedings of NODALIDA 2015, May 11-13, 2015, Vilnius, Lithuania. pp. 31-39. Linköping: LiU Electronic Press. ISBN 978-91-7519-098-3
• Bick, Eckhard & Anabela Barreiro (2015). Automatic Anonymisation of a new Portuguese-English Parallel Corpus in the Legal-Financial Domain. In: Alberto Simões, Anabela Barreiro, Diana Santos, Rui Sousa-Silva & Stella E.O. Tagnin (eds.), Linguística, Informática e Tradução: Mundos que se Cruzam. Oslo Studies in Language, Vol. 7, No 1 (2015). pp. 101-122. ISBN 978-82-91398-12-9, ISSN 1890-9639
• Bick, Eckhard (2014). Translating the Swedish Wikipedia into Danish. In: Accepted Abstracts of The 5th Swedish Language Technology Conference. SLTC 2014, Uppsala University, 13-14 Nov 2014
• Bick, Eckhard (2014). Swedish-Danish Machine Translation in a Constraint Grammar Framework. In: Adam Przepiórkowski & Maciej Ogrodniczuk (eds.), Advances in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of 9th International Conference on NLP, PolTAL 2014, Warsaw, Poland, September 17-19, 2014, pp. 216-227. Heidelberg:Springer. ISBN 978-3-319-10887-2
• Bick, Eckhard (2014), ML-Optimization of Ported Constraint Grammars, In: Calzolari, Nicoletta et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC2014 (Reykjavik, May 28-30, 2014). pp. 3382-3386. ISBN 978-2-9517408-8-4
• Bick, Eckhard (2014). PALAVRAS, a Constraint Grammar-based Parsing System for Portuguese. In: Tony Berber Sardinha & Thelma de Lurdes São Bento Ferreira (eds.), Working with Portuguese Corpora, pp 279-302. London/New York:Bloomsburry Academic. ISBN 978-1-4411-9050-5
• Bick, Eckhard (2013), ML-Tuned Constraint Grammars, In: Proceedings of the 27th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, pp. 440-449. Taipei: Department of English, National Chengchi University. ISBN 978-986-03-8567-0
• Bick, Eckhard (2013). Using Constraint Grammar for Chunking. In: S. Oepen, K. Hagen & J. B. Joannessen (Eds), Proceedings of the 19th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA 2013), May 22-24, Oslo, Norway. Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings Vol. 85, pp. 13-26. Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press. (ISSN 1650-3740, ISBN 978-91-7519-589-6)
• Bick, Eckhard (2013), Parsing Speech Data: The Automatic Grammatical Annotation of the C-ORAL-Brasil Corpus, In: Proceedings of GSCP 2012 (Belo Horizonte, February 29 - March 2, 2012). Firenze: Firenze University Press (Permalink: http://digital.casalini.it/9788866553519), pp. 27-32. ISBN 978-88-665-5351-9
• Bick, Eckhard (2012). A anotação gramatical do C-ORAL Brasil. In: Tommaso Raso & Heliana Mello (eds), C-ORAL-Brasil I - Corpus de referência do português brasileiro falado informal. Chapter 6, pp 223-254. Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG. ISBN 978-85-7041-943-9
• Bick, Eckhard (2011), A Barebones Constraint Grammar, In: Helena Hong Gao & Minghui Dong (eds), Proceedings of the 25th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (Singapore, 16-18 December, 2011). pp. 226-235, ISBN 978-4-905166-02-3
• Bick, Eckhard (2011). WikiTrans, The English Wikipedia in Esperanto. In: Constraint Grammar Applications, Workshop at NODALIDA 2011, Riga, Latvia. (forthcoming: NEALT Proceedings Series, Vol. 14, pp. 8-16. Tartu: Tartu University Library. ISSN 1736-6305)
• Bick, Eckhard (2010), Degrees of Orality in Speech-like Corpora: Comparative Annotation of Chat and E-mail Corpora, In: Ryo Otoguru et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (Tohoku University, 4-7 November, 2010). pp. 721-729, ISBN 978-4-905166-00-9
• Bick, Eckhard (2010), FrAG, a Hybrid Constraint Grammar Parser for French, In: Calzolari, Nicoletta et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC2010 (Malta, May 19-21, 2010). pp. xxx (ISBN 2-9517408-6-7)
• Bick, Eckhard (2010), A Dependency-based Approach to Anaphora Annotation, in: (eds.) Extended Activities Proceedings, 9th International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language Apr. 27-30. Porto Alegre, Brazil. pp. xxx. ISSN 2177-3580(original version, full length)
• Valverde, Pilar & Bick, Eckhard (2010). "A Web Corpus of Spanish Automatically Annotated with Semantic Roles". In: Sánchez, A. & M. Almela. 2010. A Mosaic of Corpus Linguistics. Selected Approaches. Berlin/Frankfurt: Peter Lang. [Oral presentation at: 1st International Conerence on Corpus Linguistics (CILC-09), Murcia May 7-9 2009] (ISBN 978-3-631-58789-8. ISSN 1436-1914)
• Bick, Eckhard (2009). A Dependency Constraint Grammar for Esperanto. Constraint Grammar Workshop at NODALIDA 2009, Odense. NEALT Proceedings Series, Vol 8, pp.8-12. Tartu: Tartu University Library. (ISSN 1736-6305)
• Bick, Eckhard (2009). Introducing probabilistic information in Constraint Grammar parsing. Proceedings of Corpus Linguistics 2009, Liverpool, UK. Electronically published at ... (forthcoming)
• Bick, Eckhard & Valverde, Pilar (2009). Automatic Semantic Role Annotation for Spanish. Proceedings of NODALIDA 2009. NEALT Proceedings Series Vol. 4. pp. 215-218. Tartu: Tartu University Library. ISSN 1736-6305
• Bick, Eckhard (2007). Automatic Semantic Role Annotation for Portuguese. In: Proceedings of TIL 2007 - 5th Workshop on Information and Human Language Technology / Anais do XXVII Congresso da SBC (Rio de Janeiro, July 5-6, 2007). ISBN 85-7669-116-7, pp. 1713-1716 (unabridged version)
• Bick, Eckhard (2007), "Functional Aspects in Portuguese NER". In: Diana Santos & Nuno Cardoso (eds.), Reconhecimento de entidades mencionadas em português: Documentação e actas do HAREM, a primeira avaliação conjunta na área.. pp. 145-155 (reprint of 2006-2) ISBN: 978-989-20-0731-1.
• Bick, Eckhard (2007), Dan2eng: Wide-Coverage Danish-English Machine Translation, In: Bente Maegaard (ed.), Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XI, 10-14. Sept. 2007, Copenhagen, Denmark. pp. 37-43
• Bick, Eckhard (2007), Tagging and Parsing an Artificial Language: An Annotated Web-Corpus of Esperanto, In: Proceedings of Corpus Linguistics 2007, Birmingham, UK. Electronically published at (http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/publications/CL2007/, Nov. 2007)
• Bick, Eckhard & Nygaard, Lars (2007). Using Danish as a CG Interlingua. A Wide-Coverage Norwegian-English Machine Translation System. In: Proceedings of the 16th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics. Tartu, Estonia. ISBN978-9985年4月05日14-7
• Bick, Eckhard (2006), Noun Sense Tagging: Semantic Prototype Annotation of a Portuguese Treebank, In: Hajic, Jan & Nivre, Joakim (red.), Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (December 1-2, 2006, Prague, Czech Republic), pp.127-138
• Bick, Eckhard (2006), A Constraint Grammar-Based Parser for Spanish. In: Proceedings of TIL 2006 - 4th Workshop on Information and Human Language Technology (Ribeirão Preto, October 27-28, 2006).
• Bick, Eckhard (2006), "Functional Aspects in Portuguese NER", in: Renata Vieira et al. (eds.) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language (Proceedings of PROPOR 2006, Itatiaia, May 15th-17th, 2006), pp.80-89. Springer
• Bick, Eckhard (2006), "A Constraint Grammar Based Spellchecker for Danish with a Special Focus on Dyslexics". In: Suominen, Mickael et.al. (ed.) A Man of Measure: Festschrift in Honour of Fred Karlsson on his 60th Birthday. Special Supplement to SKY Jounal of Linguistics, Vol. 19 (ISSN 1796-279X), pp. 387-396. Turku: The Linguistic Association of Finland
• Bick, Eckhard (2005), Turning Constraint Grammar Data into Running Dependency Treebanks, In: Civit, Montserrat & Kübler, Sandra & Martí, Ma. Antònia (red.), Proceedings of TLT 2005 (4th Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theory, Barcelona, December 9th - 10th, 2005), pp.19-27
• Bick, Eckhard (2005), Gramática Constritiva na Análise Automática de Sintaxe Portuguesa. In: Berber Sardinha, Tony (ed.), A Língua Portuguesa no Computador [The Portuguese Language on the Computer]. Campinas: Mercado de Letras, São Paulo: FAPESP. ISBN: 85-7591-044-2
• Bick, Eckhard (2004), PaNoLa: Integrating Constraint Grammar and CALL, In: Henrik Holmboe (red.), Nordic Language Technology, Årbog for Nordisk Sprogteknologisk Forskningsprogram 2000-2004 (Yearbook 2003). p.183-190, Copenhaguen: Museum Tusculanum
• Bick, Eckhard (2004), Parsing and evaluating the French Europarl corpus, In: Patrick Paroubek, Isabelle Robba & Anne Vilnat (red.): Méthodes et outils pour lévaluation des analyseurs syntaxiques (Journée ATALA, May 15, 2004). pp. 4-9. Paris: ATALA.
• Bick, Eckhard (2003). "A Constraint Grammar Based Question-Answering System for Portuguese". In: Fernando Moura Pires & Salvador (eds.) Progress in Artificial Intelligence (Proceedings of EPIA'2003, Beja, Dec. 2003), pp. 414-418. Springer
• Bick, Eckhard (2003), A CG & PSG Hybrid Approach to Automatic Corpus Annotation, in Kiril Simow & Petya Osenova: Proceedings of SProLaC2003 (at Corpus Linguistics 2003, Lancaster), pp. 1-12
• Bick, Eckhard (2001), En Constraint Grammar Parser for Dansk, in Peter Widell & Mette Kunøe (eds.) 8. Møde om Udforskningen af Dansk Sprog, 12.-13. oktober 2000, pp. 40-50, Århus University
• Bick, Eckhard (2000), The Parsing System Palavras - Automatic Grammatical Analysis of Portuguese in a Constraint Grammar Famework, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press (preprint version) -- dr.phil. thesis (cf. the Disputatio for an introduction)
• Bick, Eckhard (1998), Tagging Speech Data - Constraint Grammar Analysis of Spoken Portuguese, in: Proceedings of the 17th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics, (Odense 1998)
• Bick, Eckhard (1996), Automatic Parsing of Portuguese. In García, Laura Sánchez (ed.), Anais / II Encontro para o Processamento Computacional de Português Escrito e Falado. Curitiba: CEFET-PR.

Other publications concerning Constraint Grammar

• Antonsen, Lene & Huhmarniemi, Saara & Trosterud, Trond (2009). Constraint Grammar in Dialogue systems. Constraint Grammar Workshop at NODALIDA 2009, Odense. NEALT Proceedings Series, Vol 8, pp.13-21. Tartu: Tartu University Library. (ISSN 1736-6305)
• Antonsen, Lene & Huhmarniemi, Saara & Trosterud, Trond (2009). Interactive pedagogical programs based on Constraint Grammar. Constraint Grammar Workshop at NODALIDA 2009, Odense. NEALT Proceedings Series, Vol 8, pp.10-17. Tartu: Tartu University Library. (ISSN 1736-6305)
• Lindström, Liina & Müürisep, Kaili (2009). Parsing Corpus of Estonian Dialects. Constraint Grammar Workshop at NODALIDA 2009, Odense. NEALT Proceedings Series, Vol 8, pp. 22-29. Tartu: Tartu University Library. (ISSN 1736-6305)
• Trosterud, Trond (2009). A Constraint Grammar for Faroese. Constraint Grammar Workshop at NODALIDA 2009, Odense. NEALT Proceedings Series, Vol 8, pp.1-7. Tartu: Tartu University Library. (ISSN 1736-6305)
• Dhonnchadha, E. Uí (2006). "A Part-of-speech tagger for Irish using Finite-State Morphology and Constraint Grammar Disambiguation". In: Proceedings of LREC'06. Genova, Italy.
• Atserias, J. et al. (2006). "FreeLing 1.3: Syntactic and semantic services in an open-source NLP library". In: Proceedings of LREC'06. Genoa, Italy (2006)
• Hurskainen, Arvi (2006), Constraint Grammar in Unconventional Use: Handling complex Swahili idioms and proverbs. In: Suominen, Mickael et.al. (ed.) A Man of Measure: Festschrift in Honour of Fred Karlsson on his 60th Birthday. Special Supplement to SKY Jounal of Linguistics, Vol. 19 (ISSN 1796-279X), pp. 397-406. Turku: The Linguistic Association of Finland
• Müürisep, Kaili and Uibo, Heli. "Shallow Parsing of Spoken Estonian Using Constraint Grammar". In: P.J.Henriksen & P.R.Skadhauge, Proceedings of NODALIDA-2005 special session on treebanking. Copenhagen Studies in Language #33/2006.
• Müürisep, Kaili et al. (2003). A New Language for Constraint Grammar: Estonian. In: International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing. Proceedings. Borovets, Bulgaria, 10-12 September 2003, pp. 304-310.
• Hagen, Kristin & Lane, Pia. & Trosterud, Trond (2001). "En grammatikkontrol for bokmål". In: Kjell Ivar Vannebo & Helge Sandøy (eds.): Språkknyt 3-2001.
• Hagen, K., Johannessen, J. B., Nøklestad, A.(2000). "A Constraint-Based Tagger for Norwegian". In: Lindberg, C.-E. og Lund, S.N. (red.): 17th Scandinavian Conference of Linguistic, Odense. Odense Working Papers in Language and Communication, No. 19, vol I.
• Arppe, Antti (2000). "Developing a grammar checker for Swedish". In: Nordgård, T. (ed.) Nodalida'99 Proceedings. Department of Linguistics, University of Trondheim. pp. 13-27.
• Birn, Jussi (2000). "Detecting grammar errors with Lingsoft's Swedish grammar checker". In: Nordgård, T. (ed.) Nodalida'99 Proceedings. Department of Linguistics, University of Trondheim. pp. 28-40.
• Lager, Torbjörn (1999). "The μ-TBL System: Logic Programming Tools for Transformation-Based Learning". In: Proceedings of CoNLL'99, Bergen.
• Lindberg, Nikolaj & Martin Eineborg (1998). "Learning Constraint Grammar-style disambiguation rules using Inductive Logic Programming". In: Proceedings of COLING 1998.
• Lindberg, Nikolaj & Martin Eineborg (1998). "Learning Constraint Grammar-style disambiguation rules using Progol". In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1998, Volume 1446/1998, 116-124, DOI: 10.1007/BFb0027315
• Padró, L.(1996). "POS Tagging Using Relaxation Labelling". In: Proceedings of COLING '96. Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Hurskainen, Arvi (1996). "Disambiguation of morphological analysis in Bantu languages". In: Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational Linguistics. Copenhagen:ACL. Vol.1, pp.568-573
• Marques, Lluis & Horacio Rodriguez (1995). "Towards Learning a Constraint Grammar from Annotated Corpora Using Decision Trees". ESPRIT BRA-. 7315 Acquilex II, Working Paper
• Chanod, Jean-Pierre & Tapanainen, Pasi, "Tagging French - comparing a statistical and a constraint- based method", adapted from: Statistical and Constraint- based Taggers for French, Technical report MLTT-016, Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble, 1994
• Voutilainen, Atro, Juha Heikkilä, and Arto Anttila (1992). "Constraint Grammar of English - A Performance-Oriented Introduction". No. 21, Publications of the Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki.