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

[Justin Washtell]

Albretch,

> How on earth could you query texts semantically?

Most likely with natural language.

>  I think you have clearly stated it: parses and annotations, even if multiple and multi-layer, are still syntactic in the sense that we express and get to them by syntactic means

Parsing is traditionally syntactic, but I don't think we need limit ourselves to that - the medium certainly doesn't impose it. If anything I might be so bold as to observe that text is one of the few media which carry relatively robust semantic interpretations (pragmatics notwithstanding).

> Take, say, all current pop culture songs and do all the parsing and annotating you want and then tell me what is the content/lyrics/melody of the next hit ;-)

I expect you might equally well struggle to decide which melodies are syntactically well-formed.

Justin Washtell
University of Leeds

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