Querying treebanks INESS Regex

Date: Thursday, February 16, 2017, 17h00-18h15 (CET time)

Session coordinator: Dag Haug (University of Oslo)

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzltV8DtTIE

Slides: http://folk.uio.no/daghaug/slides.pdf

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Outline

We will start with an introduction to regular expressions. Then we look at use cases for treebanks and learn how to query them in the INESS tool (http://iness.uib.no) using regular expressions.

Required readings

Dag Haug. 2015. Treebanks in historical linguistic research. In Carlotta Viti (ed.), Perspectives on Historical Syntax, Benjamins, 188-202. A preprint is available here. For the published version contact Dag Haug at daghaug@ifikk.uio.no

Dan Jurafsky and James H. Martin. Speech and Language Processing, chapter 2, p. 1-9 (on regular expressions). 3rd edition draft available here.

Further readings

Essay title

Practical exercise

Exercices on slides 12 (regexes) and 41 (INESS query)