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  <Title>Managing information at linguistic interfaces*</Title>
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4 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have described the interface terms used to carry linguistic information in the Verbmobil system.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The amount and type of information that they carry are adapted to the various constraints that arose during the distributed development of such a large system over a periods of several years. The VIT format has been integrated into several running systems, including the most successful, the Verbmobil Research Prototype. Subsequent modifications in the second phase of Verbmobil have been possible in a systematic and monotonic fashion. Similarly, the adaption of several new syntactic and semantic analysis modules has not presented any major or unseen problems. Among the tasks currently under development is the use of VIT representations in the generation of dialogue protocols, in the language of each participant.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> We feel that VITs have proved themselves adequate to the considerable system requirements through their continued, efffective use. We also find it reassuring that, despite the priority given to the engineering requirement, we have been able to embed within this interface language representations that are, at least, equivalent to the state of the art in Computational Semantics.</Paragraph>
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