Re: TM and NLP

Hi!

> Has anyone seen an application of topic maps to linguistic data?  I'd
> appreciate comments, suggestions, pointers.

I doubt this is precisely what You are looking for, but I'm currently  
writing my MA-thesis on the application of TM to model  
class-hierarchies of the object oriented language LPS (Linguistische  
ProgrammierSprache = linguistic programming language). LPS 	describes a  
natural language's grammar using the oo-paradigm. The grammar is then  
used to e.g. parse and generate written language. So, indirectly, I'm  
using TM to model linguistic data (but from the competence/langue side,  
not linguistic data in the sense of performance/parole). If you are  
interested, I could send you some more information (though I'm not done  
with the thesis yet).
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Knud Möller -  Institut für Sprachliche Informationsverarbeitung,
Universität zu Köln
(Department of Linguistic Data Processing,
University of Cologne, Germany)