The Construction of a Tagged Danish Corpus

T h e o b jec t o f th is p ap e r is to p resen t ongo ing w o rk o n th e co n stru c tio n o f a m o rp hosyn tac tica lly tag g ed D an ish co rpus, w h ich is an in tegral s tep in th e m ak in g o f a C o n stra in t G ram m ar (C G ) p a rse r fo r D an ish an d a lso co n stitu te s a p a rt o f th e D an ish co n trib u tio n to th e E u ro p ean P A R O L E pro ject. T h is p ap er d iscu sses v arious aspects o f the m o rp h o lo g ica l d esc rip tio n o f D an ish u se d h ere as w ell as so m e o f th e gu ide lines develo p ed fo r the m an u a l d isam b ig u a tio n p rocess. F ina lly , i t a lso b rie fly g ives an o v erv iew o f th e o b jec tives o f th e tw o p ro jec ts invo lved .