Contents

• Contents
• Introduction
  • The VIT Library Package
  • The Verbmobil Interface Term
  • Multiple Levels of Information
  • Contents of VIT Slots
    • VIT ID
    • Index
    • Conditions
    • Other Slots
  • The Prolog Implementation
  • Overview
• Create and Fill a VIT
  • Create a new VIT
  • Add Information to a VIT
  • Close a VIT
  • Manipulate the ``VIT ID'' Slot
• Access to Information of a VIT
  • Accessing the Slots
  • Accessing Specific Information
    • Accessing Morpho-syntactic Information
    • Accessing Status Infomation
    • Accessing Sortal and other Classifications
    • Accessing Dialogue Information
    • Accessing Scopal Constraints
    • Accessing Prosodic Information
    • Miscellaneous
• Copy and Delete Information
  • Copy VITs and Selected Slots
  • Delete Information of a VIT
• Check a VIT or Parts of It
  • VIT Checkers
  • Error Reporting Options
  • Lexicon Compatibility Options
  • Checking Information Terms
  • Tests on Argument Types
• Print a VIT
• Miscellaneous Operations on VITs
  • Manipulate Semantic Conditions
  • Collect Information about an Instance
  • Traversing a VIT
  • Operations on the Surface String
  • Computing with Types
    • Background
    • Conversion of Internal Representations
    • Operations on Types
  • ADT Package Status
  • Miscellaneous
• References
• Getting and Installing the Software
• Usage
  • Using the Package
  • Error Messages
• Module atom2term
  • Introduction
  • Predicates
• On-line Lexicon Databases
  • Built-in Semantic Lexicon Database
  • Format of a On-line Database
  • Format of a Linking Table
    • Access to Linking Tables
  • Adding Further Lexicon Entries
• Index