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

[Christian Chiarcos]

> honestly I don't believe in OWL/RDF description of
> ontologies/Semantic Web things in corpora research. At least not in
> the way I think of corpora which are essentially syntactic beasts

Well, it definitely makes sense as soon as you go beyond a single  
syntactic tree annotated to a particular text (e.g., multiple parses  
produced by different tools, or semantic annotations besides syntactic  
annotations, or syntax annotations accompanied by coreference  
annotations). In the last years, the question how to deal with such  
multi-layer annotations has evolved into an important (and still not  
satisfying resolved) research question, and OWL/RDF may be part of an  
answer to that: It provides a very natural way to model and to query any  
kind of multi-layer annotations using established formalisms, methods, and  
technologies. (I'm a bit arguing against myself here: In the last years, I  
have been involved in the development of a LAF/GrAF-based XML standoff  
format for exactly the same purpose.)

And of course, an additional benefit lies in the seemless integration with  
external knowledge sources.

>  How on earth could you query texts semantically?

Most query languages implement fragments of first-order predicate logic.  
What's the difference ?

Christian
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