@inproceedings{ bec:etal:02, author = "Becker, Markus and Drożdżyński, Witold and Krieger, Hans-Ulrich and Piskorski, Jakub and Schäfer, Ulrich and Xu, Feiyu", another_url = "http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/publikationen/softcopies/Becker:2002:SSP.pdf", title = "{SProUT} — Shallow Processing with Typed Feature Structures and Unification", url = "http://www.dfki.de/~feiyu/sprout.pdf", booktitle = "Proceedings of the International Conference on NLP (ICON 2002)", address = "Mumbai, India", year = "2002", abstract = "We present SProUT, a platform for the development of multilingual shallow text processing systems. A grammar in SProUT consists of a set of rules, where the left-hand side is a regular expression over typed feature structures (TFSs), representing the recognition pattern, and the right-hand side is a sequence of TFSs, specifying how the output structure looks like. The reusable core components fo SProUT are a finite-state machine toolkit, a regular compiler, a typed feature structure package, and a finite-state machine interpreter." }