%0 Journal Article
%T The Use of Instrumentation in Grammar Engineering
%A Norbert Broeker
%J Computer Science
%D 2000
%I arXiv
%X 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.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0011020v2