Syntactic Search by Example

@inproceedings{Shlain2020SyntacticSB,
  title={Syntactic Search by Example},
  author={Micah Shlain and Hillel Taub-Tabib and Shoval Sadde and Yoav Goldberg},
  booktitle={Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
  year={2020}
}
We present a system that allows a user to search a large linguistically annotated corpus using syntactic patterns over dependency graphs. In contrast to previous attempts to this effect, we introduce a light-weight query language that does not require the user to know the details of the underlying syntactic representations, and instead to query the corpus by providing an example sentence coupled with simple markup. Search is performed at an interactive speed due to efficient linguistic graph… 
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