Parsing can be defined as the decomposition of complex structures into their constituent parts, and parsing technology as methods, tools and software to parse automatically. This book contains contributions from many of today's leading researchers in the field of natural language parsing technology. This volume is of special interest to researchers, advanced students, graduate students, and teachers in the following areas: Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Language Engineering, Information Science, and Cognitive Science. It will also appeal to designers, developers, and users of advanced natural language processing software and systems, including applications such as machine translation, information extraction, spoken dialogue, multimodal human-computer interactions, text mining and semantic web technologies.