[developers] Searching treebanks

[Francis Bond]

Thank you!

I will try to set up Fangorn then.

On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 9:57 AM Ned Letcher <ned at nedned.net> wrote:

> Heya Francis,
>
> I surveyed syntactic querying tools for treebank search in my thesis.
> During development of Typediff <https://github.com/ned2/typediff>, I
> needed to embed an interactive querying interface for DELPHIN treebanks,
> and came to the conclusion that Fangorn was the best tool for the job.
> Sadly there is not a live version of Typediff live currently.
>
> Fangorn <https://github.com/sparcs/fangorn> itself wasn't too hard to get
> running I found, and as part of Typediff I created a tool
> <https://github.com/ned2/typediff/blob/af2d91c3221182ddb0c8cf55db4127c5c5587544/typediff/parseit.py>
> for converting DELPHIN treebanks into the format that Fangorn expects,
> which you might be able to use.
>
> I have been hoping to get a version of Typediff up and running somewhere
> but it's not something I've been able to prioritise. If I do, I will be
> sure to let you know :)
>
> Cheers,
> Ned
>
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 at 01:09, Emily M. Bender <ebender at uw.edu> wrote:
>
>> For search over semantic representations (MRS, DM, EDS) there's WeSearch:
>>
>> http://wesearch.delph-in.net/
>>
>> ... which indexes DeepBank and WikiWoods.
>>
>> Emily
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 5:29 AM Francis Bond <bond at ieee.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the tip.    If only we all sensibly annotated our corpora
>>> with typecraft.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 9:21 PM Lars Hellan <lars.hellan at ntnu.no> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Francis,
>>>>
>>>> For Norwegian you can do such things through
>>>> https://typecraft.org/tc2wiki/Norwegian_Valency_Corpus, a corpus of
>>>> about 20,000 sentences.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> (Not right on your mark, but perhaps not too far from the sphere of
>>>> "anything" ...)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best
>>>>
>>>> Lars
>>>> ------------------------------
>>>> *From:* developers-bounces at emmtee.net <developers-bounces at emmtee.net>
>>>> on behalf of Francis Bond <bond at ieee.org>
>>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 26, 2020 2:02:28 PM
>>>> *To:* Stephan Oepen; developers at delph-in.net; Rebecca Dridan; Timothy
>>>> Baldwin
>>>> *Subject:* [developers] Searching treebanks
>>>>
>>>> G'day,
>>>>
>>>> does anyone know of any way to search Redwoods (or DELPHIN treebanks in
>>>> general)  for trees of a certain type (using something like the Fangorn
>>>> interface).  For example, I want to find how often in the treebank 'start'
>>>> is intransitive vs NP V VP-ving  vs NP V VP-to vs NP V VP NP  (I start; I
>>>> start lecturing; I start to lecture; I start a lecture).
>>>>
>>>> In fangorn this was "//VP/VB/start[->S/VP/VBG" for NP V VP-ving, ...
>>>>
>>>> I would be ecstatic if there were an online search I can point my
>>>> students at, but would be interested in anything.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Francis Bond <http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/fcbond/>
>>>> Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
>>>> Nanyang Technological University
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Francis Bond <http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/fcbond/>
>>> Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
>>> Nanyang Technological University
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Emily M. Bender (she/her)
>> Howard and Frances Nostrand Endowed Professor
>> Department of Linguistics
>> Faculty Director, CLMS
>> University of Washington
>> Twitter: @emilymbender
>>
>
>
> --
> nedned.net
>


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Francis Bond <http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/fcbond/>
Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
Nanyang Technological University
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