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Hi,<div><br><div>That mostly depends on how you define 'robust' and what kind of spoken data you work with. My suggestion would be to use either lopar or bitpar. These are trainable parsers, developed by Helmut Schmid (Stuttgart) and can be downloaded from the following webpages:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/tcl/SOFTWARE/LoPar.html">http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/tcl/SOFTWARE/LoPar.html</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/tcl/SOFTWARE/BitPar.html">http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/tcl/SOFTWARE/BitPar.html</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Then you could train them on the Tuebingen Treebank for Spoken German (developed in Verbmobil, i.e. you get dialog data), which you get for free after signing the license from the following webpage:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/en_tuebads.shtml">http://www.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/en_tuebads.shtml</a></font></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>You would have to write your own scripts to extract the grammar from this treebank, though. </div><div><br></div><div>Sandra</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 22, 2008, at 9:07 AM, Olga Pustylnikov wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi,<br><br>does anybody know a robust syntax parser for German preferably applicable to spoken data?<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Olga Pustylnikov<br><br>Universität Bielefeld<br>Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft<br> Universitätsstraße 25<br>D-33615 Bielefeld<br><br><a href="http://ariadne.coli.uni-bielefeld.de/pustylnikov/">http://ariadne.coli.uni-bielefeld.de/pustylnikov/</a><br><a href="mailto:olga.pustylnikov@uni-bielefeld.de">olga.pustylnikov@uni-bielefeld.de</a><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Corpora mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:Corpora@uib.no">Corpora@uib.no</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora">http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora</a></div> </blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Sandra Kuebler</div><div>Indiana University</div><div>Department of Linguistics</div><div>Memorial Hall 322</div><div>1021 E. Third Street</div><div>Bloomington IN 47405</div><div>USA</div><div>phone: (812) 855-3268</div><div>fax: (812) 855-5363</div><div>email: <a href="mailto:skuebler@indiana.edu">skuebler@indiana.edu</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></div></div></body></html>