... trend in application-oriented natural language processing (e.g., in thearea of term, information, and answer extraction)has been to argue that for many purposes, shallownatural language processing ... construction, and for providing se-mantically based selectional restrictions to help con-straining the search space during deep parsing. Ger-maNet (Hamp and Feldweg, 1997) is a large lexicaldatabase, ... are associated with POS in- formation and semantic sorts, which are organized in a fine-grained hierarchy. The HPSG lexicon, on theother hand, is comparatively small and has a morecoarse-grained...