... this mapping is rarely completely correct. This introduces two levels of uncertainty into the processing of speech, which make the task of linguistically analyzing a spoken utterance in a speech ... (Hindle, 1983; Hipp, 1993; Heinecke et al., 1998)), but the alternative of relaxing the pars- ing constraints would appear to be a dead end in the context of the VERBMOBIL architecture. In ... This phase falls into three tasks: 1. storing the partial analyses from the parser, 2. combining them on the basis of a set of rules, and 3. selecting a result. For storing of partial results,...