Efficient Dependency Graph Matching with the IMS Open Corpus Workbench

Proisl T, Uhrig P (2012)


Publication Language: English

Publication Status: Accepted

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Publication year: 2012

Original Authors: Proisl Thomas, Uhrig Peter

Publisher: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)

City/Town: Istanbul

Pages Range: 2750–2756

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings

Event location: Istanbul TR

ISBN: 978-2-9517408-7-7

URI: http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/709_Paper.pdf

Open Access Link: http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/709_Paper.pdf

Abstract

State-of-the-art dependency representations such as the Stanford Typed Dependencies may represent the grammatical relations in a sentence as directed, possibly cyclic graphs. Querying a syntactically annotated corpus for grammatical structures that are represented as graphs requires graph matching, which is a non-trivial task. In this paper, we present an algorithm for graph matching that is tailored to the properties of large, syntactically annotated corpora. The implementation of the algorithm is built on top of the popular IMS Open Corpus Workbench, allowing corpus linguists to re-use existing infrastructure. An evaluation of the resulting software, CWB-treebank, shows that its performance in real world applications, such as a web query interface, compares favourably to implementations that rely on a relational database or a dedicated graph database while at the same time offering a greater expressive power for queries. An intuitive graphical interface for building the query graphs is available via the Treebank.info project.

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APA:

Proisl, T., & Uhrig, P. (2012). Efficient Dependency Graph Matching with the IMS Open Corpus Workbench. In Calzolari Nicoletta, Choukri Khalid, Declerck Thierry, Doğan Mehmet Uğur, Maegaard Bente, Mariani Joseph, Moreno Asuncion, Odijk Jan, Piperidis Stelios (Eds.), Proceedings (pp. 2750–2756). Istanbul, TR: Istanbul: European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

MLA:

Proisl, Thomas, and Peter Uhrig. "Efficient Dependency Graph Matching with the IMS Open Corpus Workbench." Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), Istanbul Ed. Calzolari Nicoletta, Choukri Khalid, Declerck Thierry, Doğan Mehmet Uğur, Maegaard Bente, Mariani Joseph, Moreno Asuncion, Odijk Jan, Piperidis Stelios, Istanbul: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2012. 2750–2756.

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