Querying multimodal corpora represented in XML
U. Heid and H. Voormann
Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS), University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
In this presentation, we describe a language developed within the framework of the NITE project (a collaborative European project in the IST framework) for querying and retrieving data from multimodal corpora. The corpora are represented in XML and are annotated with respect to several modalities - typically, at different levels of description for a given modality. Although XQuery may seem to be an obvious candidate for the query module, a new, dedicated query language has been developed instead. In our presentation, we explain this choice, describe the language we have developed, and compare it with XQuery. We conclude with remarks on its ongoing implementation.
Paper presented at Measuring Behavior 2002 , 4th International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioral Research, 27-30 August 2002, Amsterdam, The Netherlands