Querying Both Time-aligned and Hierarchical Corpora with NXT Search

Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004)

Abstract

One problem of the (re-)usability and exchange of annotated corpora is in the lack of standards in corpus formats and corpus query tools. This paper reports on the NXT Search tool, which was used to query two corpora with very different annotation formats. It is shown that with automatic data format conversion both corpora can be accessed and searched with NXT Search.