The paper describes the development of software for automatic grammatical ana]ysi$ of u n l ~ ' U i ~ , unedited English text at the Unit for Compm= Research on the Ev~li~h Language (UCREL) at the U n i v e t ~ of Lancaster. The work is ~n'nmtly funded by IBM and carried out in collaboration with colleagues at IBM UK ( W ' ~ ) and IBM Yorktown Heights. The paper will focus on the lexicon component of the word raging system, the UCREL grammar, the datal~zlks of parsed sentences, and the tools that have been.
