Emdros - the database engine for analyzed or annotated text

Documentation overview

The following are available:

• Downloadable documentation,
• Database Designer's Guide,
• Programmer's Reference Guide (Current version) for the current version of Emdros (1.2.0.preXXX).

Quick overview of Emdros

At COLING 2004, I had a short paper on Emdros. It gives a short introduction to Emdros for linguists.

The full citation is:

• Petersen, Ulrik (2004). "Emdros -- A Text Database Engine for Analyzed or Annotated Text". In: ACL, COLING 2004 Geneva, 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, August 23rd to 27th, 2004. Volume II. Proceedings, pp. 1190-1193.

Other publications

Other publications about Emdros include:

• Petersen, Ulrik. (2005) Evaluating corpus query systems on functionality and speed: TIGERSearch and Emdros. In: Angelova, G., Bontcheva, K., Mitkov, R., Nicolov, N. and Nikolov, N. (eds): International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2005, Proceedings, Borovets, Bulgaria, 21-23 September 2005, pp. 387--391. Available online.
• Petersen, Ulrik. (2006a) Querying both Parallel and Treebank Corpora: Evaluation of a Corpus Query System. In: Proceedings of LREC 2006. Available online.
• Petersen, Ulrik. (2006b) Principles, Implementation Strategies, and Evaluation of a Corpus Query System. In: Yli-Jyrä, Anssi; Karttunen, Lauri; Karhumäki, Juhani (eds), Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing 5th International Workshop, FSMNLP 2005, Helsinki, Finland, September 1-2, 2005, Revised Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 4002/2006, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, New York, pp. 215-226. DOI: 10.1007/11780885_21. Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11780885_21. Also available for download via the author's homepage.

Publications citing Emdros

Others are talking about Emdros, too. Publications include:

• Vee Satayamas et al (2005) Bootstrap Cleaning and Quality Control for Thair Treebank Creation In proceedings of the 9th National Computer Science and Engineering Conference (NCSEC) 2005. Available for download.
• JH Kroeze (2006) Building and Displaying a Biblical Hebrew Linguistics Data Cube Using XML In proceedings of ISCOL 2006, Haifa. Available for download.

Doedens' PhD thesis

The bibliographic data for Crist-Jan Doedens' book are as follows:

Doedens, Crist-Jan [Christianus Franciscus Joannes]. (1994) Text Databases. One Database Model and Several Retrieval Languages. Language and Computers, Number 14. Editions Rodopi Amsterdam. Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA. ISBN: 90-5183-729-1.

It can be bought over at Amazon. Amazon also has an editorial review and an annotated table of contents for the book.