Unni Cathrine Eiken February 2005

Acknowledgements
I would like to thank my supervisors professor Koenraad de Smedt and professor Helge
Dyvik who have given me invaluable support and new ideas, especially in the process of
developing the method in the thesis.
The approach in the thesis has been developed in loose cooperation with KunDoc. In this
connection I wish to thank Till Christopher Lech at CognIT AS, who has contributed
with tips and support.
Other people I would like to thank are Paul Meurer at Aksis, who installed XLE and
NorGram on my home Linux computer and Martin Rasmussen Lie who has been a great
help in programming questions and has implemented one of the approaches used in the
thesis in Perl. Thanks also go to Aleksander Krzywinski, whose achievement it is that the
pink computer exists.
Many people who have been a great support in the process of finishing the thesis have not
been mentioned – they are still, however, very greatly thanked. You know who you are!
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