[Nlp-ir] Resnik demo, Linguist's Search Engine (fwd)

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From: Steven Abney <abney at umich.edu>
Subject: Resnik demo, Linguist's Search Engine
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:39:33 -0500
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There will be a meeting of the CompLing discussion group tomorrow that 
will likely be of broader interest.  Philip Resnik will give a demo of 
the Linguist's Search Engine (http://lse.umiacs.umd.edu:8080/).

     TIME:  2:00, Friday Apr 1
     ROOM:  Frieze 1061 (computer classroom)

All are welcome!  Here is a short description of the LSE:


The World Wide Web can be viewed as a naturally occurring resource that 
embodies the rich and dynamic nature of language, a data repository of 
unparalleled size and diversity. However, current Web search methods 
are oriented more toward shallow information retrieval techniques than 
toward the more sophisticated needs of linguists. Using the Web in 
linguistic research is not easy. It will, however, be getting easier. 
This report introduces the Linguist's Search Engine, a new 
linguist-friendly tool that makes it possible to retrieve naturally 
occurring sentences from the World Wide Web on the basis of lexical 
content and syntactic structure. Its aim is to help linguists of all 
stripes in conducting more thoroughly empirical exploration of 
evidence, with particular attention to variability and the role of 
context.




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Dragomir R. Radev                                         radev at umich.edu
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