Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology(1996) Editorial Board: Ronald A. Cole, Editor in Chief Joseph Mariani Hans Uszkoreit Annie Zaenen Victor Zue Managing Editors: Giovanni Battista Varile Antonio Zampolli Sponsors: National Science Foundation European Commission Additional support was provided by: Center for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon Graduate Institute, USA University of Pisa, Italy A hardcopy of this document is available from Cambridge University Press ISBN 0-521-59277-1