Treebank - Searching Treebanks

Searching Treebanks

One of the key ways to extract evidence from a treebank is through search tools. Search tools for parsed corpora typically depend on the annotation scheme that was applied to the corpus. User interfaces range in sophistication from expression-based query systems aimed at computer programmers to full exploration environments aimed at general linguists.

The question facing a new researcher is not only, "which corpus is relevant to my needs?" but also "how can I find the information I want in this corpus, and how do I know that the results of my experiments mean what I think they do?"