Output

For now this page will be just a list of useful little helpers as they come in.

TGrep2 related tools

• Manual - Be sure to study Doug Rohde's manual (PDF file).
• Scripts - I have developed a set of PERL scripts, the TGrep2 Database Tools, that make the collection of corpus data with TGrep2 a lot more convenient.
• Tutorials -
  • The TGrep2 help page of the Stanford corpus portal.
  • A tutorial on syntactic searches (very basic) I gave at MIT.
  • The tutorial Liz Coppock, Neal Snider, and I developed for the LabSyntax class of Fall 2005/2006.
• Pattern files - here are a couple of pattern files (the input for TGrep2 searches) I used to extract properties of relative clauses. The patterns describe the syntactic structures that you want to search for:
  • Pattern that matches non-subject-extracted relative clauses (NSRCs), that is any relative clause that has a non-zero subject (i.e. where the subject isn't the extracted element). The pattern also excludes cases of pied-piping.
  • Pattern that matches NSRCs with personal pronoun subjects
  • Pattern that matches NSRCs without a pronominal element in the subject
  • Pattern that matches subject-extracted relative clauses (do you see the one element that has changed?)
• Macros - I strongly encourage the use of macros with TGrep2. The make it a lot easier to keep track of the patterns you use for a larger project. For example, my database of relative clauses uses far over 50 pattern files. Often one finds mistakes in the original patterns. Instead of having to change all pattern files (which usually is a mess!) you can just change the definition of the macro that the other files use. Also, the use of macros makes long patterns a LOT shorter. Below is an example.
  • Some useful macros for TGrep2 searches.
  • Now see, how much easier it is to write the pattern for NSRCs with personal pronoun subjects

WebExp

Neal Snider and I wrote some small scripts and templates for experiments in WebExp1.

Bulgarian

• Some links on Bulgarian online resources (corpora, dictionaries, etc.)
• Tools, links and thoughts about encoding of different languages, fonts, etc.

Prosodic Corpora

• Summary of available transcribed and prosodically annotated speech corpora