Thus, the English CG we were using for our annotation task, though in principle designed for written text of the news and scholarly genre, can also produce annotations for data of varying degrees of what we will call orality 1 in this paper -text with a certain amount of features typical of spoken language.
even a robust written-language parser will obviously be liable to a higher error rate when confronted with spoken-language structure and category distribution, and we therefore adapted the parser on several points.