Linguistic Corpus Search
Christian Biemann, Uwe Quasthoff, Christian G. Wolff · 2004
Searching corpora with linguistic questions requires both additional information encoded in the corpus and efficiency as in "traditional" search engines.We describe a search engine-like approach to querying plain as well as part-of-speech-tagged monolingual corpora.This approach makes use of a 'minimalist' query language which nevertheless allows powerful searches by optionally ignoring positional as well as inflectional features in the corpus sentences.Many queries can be formulated without detailed training via a simple web-based front-end.Relevant applications of this search tool in knowledge extraction are discussed as well.