'Altogether the book is well worth reading. The research reported in this book is very interesting, and the authors managed to almost find the right level of detail in their descriptions, enabling the reader to understand how a system works without losing the overall picture.' Natural Language Engineering, 7:1 (2001)

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Research Framework.- 3. Applications and Corpora.- 4. Portability of a Rule-Based Case Frame Parser.- 5. Stochastically-Based Case Frame Parser.- 6. Portability of the Stochastic Parser.- 7. Summary of Results.- 8. Conclusion.- Appendices.- A- Rule-based Language Porting.- B- Case Values in French and English.- C- System Query Language for L’ATIS.- D- Test Subsets.- E- Commonly-used Abbreviations.- F- Utterance References.- References.