TIGER

1999-2004

Peter Eisenberg (Potsdam), Christian Rohrer (Stuttgart), Hans Uszkoreit (Saarbrücken)

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

TIGER was a joint project of

• the Department of Computational Linguistics and Phonetics in Saarbrücken,
• the Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS) in Stuttgart,
• and the Institut für Germanistik in Potsdam.

The project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) from 1999 to 2004.

Tasks

The aim of the project was the creation of a large syntactically annotated corpus of German newspaper text. It comprises the following tasks:

• Development of a scheme for the syntactic annotation of German newspaper texts. 
  The scheme should be as theory-independent as possible in order to ensure a high degree of acceptance and re-usability.

 

• Development of new techniques for the automation of corpus annotation, 
  aiming at very fast but still very reliable and accurate annotation.

 

• Syntactic annotation of newspaper texts
  creating the treebank TIGER Corpus based on the annotation scheme and tools for automation.

 

• Phenomenon-based retrieval of sentences from the annotated corpus. 
  The query tool TIGERSearch for syntactically annotated text was developed and implemented.