[Corpora-List] Synview - A syntax tree visualization tool

[Jan Strunk]

Hello!

I would like to draw your attention to a new syntax tree visualization
tool called SynView which was developed by Christian Behrenberg
(http://www.christian-behrenberg.de).

It can be downloaded at the following address:
http://www.christian-behrenberg.de/work/SynView.html

SynView is a syntax tree visualization tool that can load sentence 
structures in LaTex compatible bracketing format (as used e.g. by
Qtree) from a text file and will then render the set of syntax trees in
a nice-looking and smooth-to-navigate fashion. One of the distinguishing 
features of this tool is the ability to zoom in on any constituent
in the tree with just one click of the mouse. Moreover, one can load
a whole set of trees at once, e.g. all possible analyses of an ambiguous 
sentence or multiple steps in a syntactic derivation, and quickly browse
through these trees using the arrow keys. These features should make it 
ideally suited for use in (computational) linguistics courses.

SynView originally was the visualization part of a parser developed as
a students project in a computational linguistics course at 
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. The challenging part was to generate 
during runtime a nice rendering of the tree structures determined by the 
parser. The author used a 3D engine to create an interactive and 
immersive visualization that is both appealing and convenient. Because 
of the 3D engine used, it is so far only available for Microsoft
Windows.

Jan Strunk
strunk at linguistics.rub.de
Sprachwissenschaftliches Institut
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Germany


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