The Use of Instrumentation in Grammar Engineering
<|reference_start|>The Use of Instrumentation in Grammar Engineering: This paper explores the usefulness of a technique from software engineering, code instrumentation, for the development of large-scale natural language grammars. Information about the usage of grammar rules in test and corpus sentences is used to improve grammar and testsuite, as well as adapting a grammar to a specific genre. Results show that less than half of a large-coverage grammar for German is actually tested by two large testsuites, and that 10--30% of testing time is redundant. This methodology applied can be seen as a re-use of grammar writing knowledge for testsuite compilation.<|reference_end|>
@article{broeker2000the,
    title={The Use of Instrumentation in Grammar Engineering},
    author={Norbert Broeker},
    journal={adapted from COLING2000, Saarbruecken/FRG, July31--Aug4 2000,
  pp.118-124},
    year={2000},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0011020},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}