TOSCA: An Aid for Building Syntactic Databases
Theo van den Heuvel · Literary and Linguistic Computing · 1988
The TOSCA (Tools for Syntactic Corpus Analysis) working group at Nijmegen University develops a computerised method for interactive syntactic analysis of unprepared text material. This method yields a data base of syntactically analysed material in the form of trees. There is a program available for the exploitation of these syntax trees for linguistic research. In this paper we sketch the consequences of this approach. Since the method involves no language specific programs, but instead uses formal descriptions of lexicon, morphology, and syntax of the target language, all in the same grammatical formalism, the whole working environment is languageindependent.