Linguistic Databases

Erhard W. Hinrichs is professor of general and computational linguistics at the Eberhard Karls Universitat Tubingen in Germany. John Nerbonne is professor of information science at the University of Groningen, Netherlands.

1. Introduction John Nerbonne; 2. Test suites for natural language processing Stephen Oepen, Klaus Netter and Judith Klein; 3. From annotated corpora to databases: the SgmlQL Jacques Le Maitre, Elisabeth Murisasco, and Monique Rolbert; 4. Markup of a test suite with SGML Martin Volk; 5. An open systems approach for an acoustic-phonetic continuous speech database: the S. tools database-management systems (STDBMS) Werner A. Deutsch, Ralf Vollman, Anton Noll, and Sylvia Moosmüller; 6. The reading database of syllable structure Erik Fudge and Linda Shockey; 7. A database application for the generation of phonetic atlas maps Edgar Haimerl; 8. Swiss-French polyphone and polyvar: telephone speech databases to model inter- and intra-speaker variability Gerard Chollet, Jean-Luc Cochard, Andrei Constantinescu, Cedric Jaboulet, and Philippe Langlais; 9. Investigating argument structure: the Russian nominalization database Andrew Bredenkamp, Louisa Sadler, and Andrew Spencer; 10. The use of a psycholinguistic database in the simplification of text for aphasic readers Siobhan Devlin and John Tait; 11. The computer learner Corpus: a testbed for electronic EFL Tools Sylviane Granger; 12. Linking wordnet to a Corpus query system Oliver Christ; 13. Multilingual data processing in the Cellar environment Gary F. Simons and John V. Thomson.