First results of a French linguistic development environment

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(GIREIL) L. Emirkanian (cIREIL) D. Estival 0ssco) C. Fay-Varnier (CRIN) C. Fouquer6 (LIBN) (]. Prigent (CNFT-L.~aon) P. Zweigenbaum (INSERM-U104) 1 Introduction: EGL The EGL (Enviroimement de Gdnie Linguistique) project started in 1989, with the proposal to create a linguistic software development environment containing a computational treatment of 1;'leach grmmltarJ Its three main objectives were to allow research groups working in NLP: m to develop and test both general l'Yencb graamtmrs and specific linguistic anMyses for that bmguage, • to test new parsers mtd to compare several parsers in a uniform setting, and * to have at their disposal an ~malyzer/generator for French, easy to maim rain and to port to other domains. tThe EGL project involves 6 different partners: