[Corpora-List] Corpora and SQL

[Ulrik Petersen]

I agree with Dr. Kilgariff: "A dedicated corpus query tool does 
everything well without extra engineering".

The original poster (and others) might want to check out how I have 
implemented a complete corpus query system on top of SQL. I haven't 
compared its feature-set with CWB, but it is comparable to TIGERSearch 
in that it handles syntax very well. It also handles word-level queries 
quite quickly.

http://emdros.org

This is part of my doctoral research, and interested parties can find a 
number of publications about Emdros here:

http://www.hum.aau.dk/~ulrikp/publications.html

The website also has extensive documentation on how it is done, and it 
is Open Source.


Thanks.

Best,

Ulrik Petersen


Adam Kilgarriff wrote:
> Of course a dedicated corpus query tool does everything well without extra
> engineering.  When I see a discussion like this with lots of comments like
> "with a bit of effort", I think "how many person-hours do they mean? (And,
> how good a solution will it be?) Unless person-hours are very cheap, it will
> cost less to buy a service that already does what is wanted."  But, seeing
> as I have such a service to sell, I'd better stop there or I shall be thrown
> off the list for being commercial
>
> Adam
> http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk 
>   

--
Ulrik Petersen, PhD candidate (comp.ling.), MA (comp.ling.), B.Sc. 
(comp.sci. & math)
http://ulrikp.org -- Homepage
http://emdros.org -- Emdros is a corpus query system