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  <Title>NP_Modification Diathesis Tense Aspect Modalit Sentence Types Coordination Negation</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> The growing la.ngua&lt;gc l.echnology indusl;ry n(!eds nl(!nslireili{~iil; tools 1;o allow rf!se;-i, rch(ws, (qigi-I\[(~(WS 1 III~LII?I,~2~(~FS 1 a,nd CllSI;OIII(!I'S i;o l,l'~mk ,l,,v&lt;~l-Opl/ICllI;, (wa, llla, tea, nd ;-tSSllre (llla,ii|;y, ;'~ll(I ;is;s(~ss suit;al)ilil;y for &lt;t variety of ~tl)l)licalions.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The 'I'SNIA' ('\['(!s|. Suil;(!s for N;d;ural l,~uiguag{: \])l'O(:(~S&lt;&amp;quot;;illg~) 1)ro.j(~cL i has iilv&lt;!stigated Vitl'i()ll,'-; as1)cc|,s o\[' i,h(~ (:onsl;rll(;|;ion, Ili;-tillLelia,ll(;c aJl(\[ ~tl)l)li(:~tt,ion oJ' s,yshml~tl;ic l,esi, suites ~ts diagnostic mid (wahlntion l,ools for NI,I ~ ~tpplic~tl,ions. The palmr suniinarizes the motivation a.ml main rcsli\]l;s of TSNI,P: besides tl~e solid nici, hodologicnl fouud~d,ion of l,\[le l)roje(;l;, TSN\[A &gt; ha. e, produc(~d SlLt)sl;~tntiztl (i.e. lm'ger tho,ll &amp;lly cxist,ing gOllcral Lest suites) n~u|l,i-purl~osc mid iliu\]i;i-user LesL suites fin' three I~hlropea.n lm~guages l;ogel,\]ler wil, h a set of Sl)(;cialized tools that t'acilil,;~te th(! con-S|;l'llC|;iolt~ (~XI,CIISiOII~ lll~-till|;(HlallCC~ r(!I.ri(!val~ ?tll(| clts|;oniizal;iotl o\[' l;he l;(~sl, d~ti;a.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> The pul)li&lt;:ly avMIMfle resull.s of TSNLI' l'(!l)reseiii; a wduM)lc linguisLic rosourc(~ l;hai; has l;\[i('~ pot;enl, iM of l)roviding ~t widc-sl)r(utd I)re-sl,an(lard diagnost, i(: a.nd (w;thla.LiOll i;ool fl)r bol;h (l(woh)p(!rs and users (ll' NI,P al)l)licai;ions.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> \] Backgro,md and Motivation Ewduation of NI,P ;q)l)lications plays mi im:reasingly iml)ortanL role in both (;he a(:adtnni(: mtd in(lusl;ria.1 NI, (:onmumiti(~s. Two tools t;raditiona.1ly used for (~va.hial;iug an(l l:(~sl:ing N\],\] ) syst(!ms .%1&amp;quot;C \[,CS\[, S'II, iI, C,'~ ;I,11(l \[,cat (:o'I7)o7YI,. ~\['11o I;wo (:;VII 1)(; seen as serving (:Olnt)hmw~nLary 1)url)oses (see l),mphiil el; al. (1995a)): in (:onl,ras~ 1;() tex(, ('or1)()ra, whose nmiu a.(lva.ntage is l;ha% they r(;lle,(:t natm'nlly ()(:curring (lal,;~, l;h0 key 1)rop(~rti(~s of |;(!,ql; suil;cs a,re (i) syst, em(d/i(:ity, (ii) co'~d,'rol ov(:'r d(tl, a, (iii) i'r~,clv, siou, of ne:l(tl, ivc (l(da, ~tn(l (iv) c.:dt,(t'.,stivity. null I'l'tm la'oj~cl was ~tm'l,(~d in I)(~(:(md)er 1993 and COml)leted in M;u(:h 1!)9(;, Most of t,h(~ I)roj(~ct results (do(:um(mts, bibli()gral)hy , tcsL data, ;rod sofl;wa,'( 0 as well as on-lium ~tcccss to (;he l,('sl, suil,(~ (laJ,a, ba&gt;;(? ~ul(l clnai\] ~uhh'ess(!s of l,h(! proj(~(;l; nmntlmrs c;-tll I)(! o\])rained through I,h&lt;~ world.wide web fronl the TSN1A' holIl(~ 1)~1,1!~'.! 'ht i;p ://tsnip. dfki. mtJ -sb. de/tsnlp/'.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="4">  Among the ma.ii~ mol;iw~.tions for 1,he TSNIA' proj(~(:t wore the lack of gone, ra\] guidelines for the t(;sl; suite construction, of adeqmvte a,nd compreh(;nsiv(~ test mnterial, and of al)prol)rial;(~ tools.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="5"> The resulting duplication of effort among test .~uito d(welopers obviously le~tds t,o a waste of time and resour(:os. In additi(m, one of the main conclusions of a, study of existing t;esl;s suil;es COlMUCtCd during the first: sLage of the project (Esl:iva.l el; al. (\]994)) was that l;he. r(msability of exisi;ing test suiLos is severely hmnl)ered l)y the, it l;mk of structure a.ud a, nn()ta.t;ions. Iudeed, despit(~ th(; pioiw(',ring ('fl'orl;s of Flickinger et al. (1987) ,~/,lld Nc, rbonn(! (;1; al. (1993), most of the, existing test suites were writtren for some specific, syste, m or simply (municrat, c a nmnl)er of int(we, st;ing examples and, thus, do not, niee, t th(! demarlM for large, sysLelna, tic, wt~ll-doclnnelll;t?(l, highlysl;rut:l;ure&lt; |mid mmotated collections of linguistic matexia.1, which is now required by a. growing num1)er of NIA ) apt)lications. The 'FSNIP Ix;st suite addresses these denmnds ml(l provides I)owerflfl l;ools for l;hc consl;rll(:l;ion ;tnd m:mipulation of l;}m l;(~sl; (|aJ;a,.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="6"> On the on0 ha,ml, sinco (;very NLP sysLtun (wheLlmr conmmrciM or und('x devolol)nwnt ) ('xhil)its specific fea.l;m'es which lnak(; it unique, and every user (or dcvelol)er) of mt NLP sysl;(~m has sI)(~citi(: ne(;ds and i'equirt;nmnl.s, the TSNI,I' ~tl)-l)r()ach is l)a,sed on tlm a~Smnl)tion l,h;d;, in ()r(l(w to yield informa.l;ive and int(wl)retal:)h~ results, a,ny 1;eSl; suil;e used \['or ml actual {;(;sl; or evahiation lmlSl Ioe sp('.ci,,/i(: (~d, loa.st 1;() some (h',gr(w~) to i;hc sysLem and the user. ()n the other }mrml, sin(:o testing or ewdua.ting N\[,P systems is 1)crfornmd ti)r a. variety of \]mrl)oscs , t,h(', TSNI,I &gt; a.l)l)roach is also gui&lt;l(;d l)y I;h(', n(;ed to l)rovide test mat(!rial which is easily .l'('/tts(l, Dl(',. rib achiove th(;se two goMs of Sl)(~cili(:ity and reusalfility, the tra.ditional notion of a. l,est suite as a monoliflfi(: set: of test it;olns has l)(~(!n M)andoned in fnvour of the notion of a (tal;al)as(~ in which test iLelliS ;tl'(~ sl;ored l:ogether with a, rich invenl;ory of asso(:iated liuguisti(: mM n(m-linguist;i(: ~lllllO{,&amp;i;iOllS.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="7"> Thus, I;h(; l;(:sl, Sllig(~ da.l.;I.l)~tsc sorves a.s ;t virtunl (or met;;@ tx;st; suil;e thai; t)rovitlt~s the metals i;() ex1;1&amp;quot;~-1,(% (;11(} l'(',l(;va, ltt sill)sial; Of th0 tcst; (/;1,(;}~. suital)le for s()nw Sl)(~(:iti(: tn.sk. Using tim e, xl)liciL s{;171tl:..</Paragraph>
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