The linguistic knowledge is described in expressive formal languages especially developed for the purpose. Thus linguists who produce and maintain the linguistic information need not bother with the details of data processing.
Compilers produce executable programs from formal language expressions.
Product development which follows this method produces generic development tools as a by-product. Currently the Kielikone product range includes the following generic language technology development tools. Dependency Parser Generation System DepTech is a generation system for the development and implementation of dependency parsers. It is intended especially for the development of parsers for inflectional languages. Machine Translation Development System KMTech is a generic development toolkit for machine translation systems.