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Syntactic tree queries in Prolog

Published: 15 July 2010 Publication History

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In this paper, we argue for and demonstrate the use of Prolog as a tool to query annotated corpora. We present a case study based on the German TüBa-D/Z Treebank to show that flexible and efficient corpus querying can be started with a minimal amount of effort. We end this paper with a brief discussion of performance, that suggests that the approach is both fast enough and scalable.

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  • (2012)To what extent does sentence-internal realisation reflect discourse context?Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics10.5555/2380816.2380910(767-776)Online publication date: 23-Apr-2012

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LAW IV '10: Proceedings of the Fourth Linguistic Annotation Workshop
July 2010
305 pages
ISBN:9781932432725

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Published: 15 July 2010

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  • (2012)To what extent does sentence-internal realisation reflect discourse context?Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics10.5555/2380816.2380910(767-776)Online publication date: 23-Apr-2012

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