@inproceedings{
    bec:etal:02,
    author = "Becker, Markus and Drożdżyński, Witold and Krieger, Hans-Ulrich and Piskorski, Jakub and Schäfer, Ulrich and Xu, Feiyu",
    title = "{SProUT} — Shallow Processing with Typed Feature Structures and Unification",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the International Conference on NLP (ICON 2002)",
    year = "2002",
    address = "Mumbai, India",
    pdf = "http://www.dfki.de/~feiyu/sprout.pdf",
    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."
}