Corpora: Using SARA to query other corpora than the BNC

[Hans Martin Lehmann]

    Well if you can't get the prophet to the mountain, why not just
move the mountain to the prophet and reformat the corpora into a nice
format like sgml using the BNC dtd. In this way we could use them
with SARA. Reformatting corpora  is what we have to do to use many
other corpus access programs, so why not for SARA? As an additional
benefit sgml/xml-formatted corpora might inspire programmers to write
"more flexible, more general" software for corpus analysis.


Hans Martin Lehmann


PS And I really don't care about query results formatted for MS Word. ;-)

At 14:28 Uhr +0200 20.06.2001, Thomas Kuenneth wrote:
>Nonetheless I doubt that the use of Sara for querying other corpora is
>desirable. It is common sense that the software has been tailored to fit the
>structure of the BNC (or vice versa, which does not really matter here). I am
>not too sure if the software is flexible enough to meet the
>requirements of many
>other corpora
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