Table of contents

I. Introduction

  1. About this manual
  2. The TIGERSearch software tools
  3. New features in the 2.x versions
  4. Support

II. Software installation

  1. General system requirements
  2. Installation instructions
  3. Internationalization
  4. Software suite preferences

III. The TIGERSearch query language

  1. Introduction
  2. Language overview
  3. Feature value descriptions
  4. Feature constraints
  5. Node descriptions
  6. Node relations
  7. Graph descriptions
  8. Type definitions
  9. Template definitions
  10. Possible extensions of the TIGER language
  11. Appendix: Corpus definition
  12. Appendix: Query Language Quick Reference

IV. The TIGERSearch query tool

  1. An introduction to TIGERSearch
  2. Loading a corpus
  3. Textual query editor
  4. Graphical query editor
  5. Processing a query
  6. Use of templates
  7. Viewing the matches - The GraphViewer
  8. Viewing the matches - Statistics
  9. Exporting the matches
  10. Adapting the TIGERSearch tool

V. The TIGER-XML treebank encoding format

  1. Introduction
  2. A walk through the TIGER-XML format
  3. Corpus example
  4. The TIGER-XML schema

VI. The TIGERRegistry administration tool

  1. An introduction to TIGERRegistry
  2. Starting TIGERRegistry
  3. Corpus indexing
  4. Changing corpus properties

VII. Appendix

  1. References
  2. Acknowledgements