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The idea to create the Tübingen pages for HPSG took a long time to take shape, from a vague notion of displaying our research proposals and results on-line to the reality of a finished web site. It was one of those ideas which would have been discarded in the first moments, had we known what the road to its realization was paved with. This project would never have gotten off the ground without the energetic participation and enthusiasm of many people.  

The design of the web pages was conceived by Jan-Philipp Söhn and was expanded and improved upon through many suggestions from Beata Trawinski. We could never have imagined all that needed to be considered in creating these web pages.  

The wonderful programming package for creating flexible on-line bibliographies from annotated Bibtex files by entering only one command was prepared by Michael Auth. His contribution went far beyond the duties of his assistantship position, with which his work began, and at the end, his effort was derived purely from his own enthusiasm. His motivation and improvements to the original project was essential to its success. Tylman Ule (Perl), Lothar Lemnitzer (XML) and Wolfgang Maier were particularly supportive with the many programming and technical questions. Wolfgang Maier helped enormously with the unending drama of working with various font formats. Many thanks goes to Lothar Lemnitzer for his willingness to assume Michael's bibliography package as the standard format for the MiLCA consortium, and his support with the challenges inherited with this new system, including upgrades and maintenance. Many things would never have been possible without the energetic help of our system administrator, Jochen Saile. 

The English translations of our web pages were done by Carmella Payne. Not only grammatically, but also resourcefully thought out. Well done! 

For all of the ideas on content in the web pages, motivation, suggestions for improvement, and words of encouragement, I owe thanks to many colleagues and friends both at the SfS and everywhere else in the world. Representing the enormous contributions from all of you, I would especially like to acknowledge Detmar Meurers, Gerald Penn, Frank Morawietz and Guido Minnen. Many thanks to all of you, who have imaginatively and enthusiastically contributed to this project. 

Frank Richter  

Last modified: 06.08.2002