<html><head><base href="x-msg://62/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Tine,<div><br></div><div><div><div>On May 27, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Tine Lassen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(25, 34, 40); "><div><div>I am in the process of compiling a series of domain corpora, and once the present text gathering phase is completed, of course i need to store the texts somehow. The texts need to be annotated with e.g. parts of spech and posssibly phrase boundaries for term extraction purposes. </div><div><br></div><div>My questions are: Would it be wiser to store the texts as XML or in a relational database format?</div><div>Does a generally accepted corpus annotation XML-schema exist? And do tools for annotation of and search in such files exists?</div><div>How do you store your corpora?</div></div></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>TEI XML, using the oXygen XML editor, and storing the XML-files in for example in BaseX is the solution. At least the editing and annotation we do so far for the Croatian Language Corpus (<a href="http://riznica.ihjj.hr/">http://riznica.ihjj.hr/</a>) this way. I use BaseX for my own purposes, but do plan to provide a new front-end search with it as a backend. The current online search front-end of the CLC is a manipulated PhiloLogic, that takes raw TEI XML files (see the link above for the interface).</div><div><br></div><div>So, why bother and store all that in relational DBs? The current XML-DBs are quite efficient and fast:</div><div><br></div><div>TEI</div><div><a href="http://www.tei-c.org/">http://www.tei-c.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Philologic</div><div><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/philologic3/home">http://sites.google.com/site/philologic3/home</a></div><div><br></div><div><div>BaseX</div><div><a href="http://basex.org/">http://basex.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div>and the only commercial in this list is:</div><div><br></div><div>oXygen</div><div><a href="http://www.oxygenxml.com/">http://www.oxygenxml.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>best wishes</div><div>DC</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div>
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