[Corpora-List] Query-By-Example (QBE) -like GUI to query corpora ...

[Christian Chiarcos]

Sounds a bit like the Linguist's Search Engine  
(http://lse.umiacs.umd.edu/), which is, however, specifically directed  
towards syntax queries. Unfortunately offline by now, but the code and a  
presentation showing its functionality are still available on the site.  
Maybe somebody knows about a successor implementation ?

Something partially comparable may be the TigerNavigator  
(http://tigernavigator.nlp2rdf.org), a prototype implementation for a  
methodology to use ontologies (OWL/RDF) to represent linguistic corpora  
(here, the German TIGER corpus) and ontology-based machine learning  
techniques to construct a concept description (a pattern to match  
sentences) out of samples a user provides. Using this concept description,  
the corpus is then filtered. The main difference is that the user has to  
provide a whole set of instances and counterinstances for the concept  
(s)he's looking for.

Best,
Christian

On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:58:02 +0100, Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> ~
>  Say you would to view all n-grams o certain words and navigate their
> various properties just by clicking on a GUI. A proof of
> concept/paradigm/workable model would be Microsoft QBE interface for
> their Access (personal) DBMS as part of MS Office suite. I was amazed
> at the ease at which users put it to work without having a clue of
> what SQL stands for
> ~
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Query_by_Example
> ~
>  MS Access QBE was just a gui to actually create a SQL statement in
> the background which in turn queried the DB, but, is there even a
> query language for corpora or some standard, work in progress or
> anything?
> ~
>  Is there such a thing for corpora?
> ~
>  Thank you
>  lbrtchx
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