[Corpora-List] On-line concordancer for the European Constitution

[Eric Atwell]

Jean,

Interesting, your concordancer allows me to confirm that the European
Constitution has no "intelligence", no "common sense", but a few
uses of "sex"...
BUT does anyone know of a tool which can read in a corpus
and then answer questions about the semantic content of the text?
Bayan Abu Shawar here at Leeds has FAQchat, which can read in
a Frequently-Asked Questions corpus and then generates a chatbot which
can answer general English questions with answers from the FAQ;
but this only works with an informative text structred as a set of
typical questions with answers. Does anyone have a tool/method
to transform any informative text (eg the European Constitution,
assuming a generous interpretation of "informative")  into an FAQ,
or into a natrual-language query-answerer?

eric atwell, Leeds University

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Jean Veronis wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> As you probably heard even if you are not a EU citizen, the brand new
> European Constitution is a lengthy, almost unreadable piece of  Eurojargon :
> 482 pages, 1 million characters. Not for the average citizen (but he/she will
> have to vote about it soon).
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> http://aixtal.blogspot.com/2005/04/text-navigate-through-european.html
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> In order to help understanding this document, I have written an on-line
> concordancer for the English and French versions. This could be useful to
> you, and it could be a source of interesting exercises on regular expressions
> for your students.
>
> Have fun.
>
> --jv
> http://aixtal.blogspot.com
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