This paper describes INESS-Search, a new search tool for constituency, dependency and
LFG treebanks. The tool is derived from TIGERSearch and has been extended to …

The query language in TIGERSearch is limited due to its lack of universal quantification. This
restriction makes it impossible to make simple queries like “Find sentences that do not …

[Objective] This study aims to explore an efficient method for retrieving syntactic information
from large text corpora.[Methods] First, we created linearized indices for syntactic information …

The last decade has seen a large increase in the number of available corpus query systems.
Some of these are optimized for a particular kind of linguistic annotation (eg, time-aligned …

The last decade has seen an increase in the number of available corpus query systems.
These systems generally implement a query language as well as a database model. We …

Corpus query systems exist to address the multifarious information needs of any person
interested in the content of annotated corpora. In this role they play an important part in …

This paper describes the nature and scope of Emdros, a text database engine for annotated
text. Three case-studies of persuasive learning systems using Emdros as an important …

Query Expansion is a technique whereby a query in an information retrieval system is
expanded with more terms, thus most likely increasing the number of relevant documents …

“There are many ways to skin a cat,” so the saying goes. Similarly, there are several ways to
write a PhD dissertation. I have chosen the way recommended to me by my PhD supervisor …

Automatically transforming text to conceptual graphs has long been a goal of the Conceptual
Graphs community, starting with Sowa and Way's seminal paper in 1986. We have …