About dep_search

dep_search is a tool for treebank search especially tuned towards large-scale parsebanks. You can test it in action at the Turku BioNLP group’s pages, and it also powers the Universal Dependencies content validation system.

Query language documentation

The documentation of the query language is here.

Installation

dep_search

dep_search is a command line tool which can be installed according to these instructions. This will give you the opportunity to index and query treebanks from the command line, and may be all you need.

API and Web application

dep_search also includes a Web API built using Python Flask which lets you query your treebanks using simple HTTP requests, and a Web application which gives you a browser-based interface which renders the trees. These power the main dep_search web interface at http://bionlp-www.utu.fi/dep_search/ but you can also run them locally.

• Set up the API instructions
• Run the web application instructions

Citations

If you use dep_search in your research, please cite papers:

J. Luotolahti; J. Kanerva; S. Pyysalo; F. Ginter. SETS: Scalable and Efficient Tree Search in Dependency Graphs. Proceedings of the 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Demonstrations. 2015

J. Luotolahti; J. Kanerva; F. Ginter. Dep_search: Efficient Search Tool for Large Dependency Parsebanks. Proceedings of the 21st Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa). 2017