Alex Shan


2023

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Semgrex and Ssurgeon, Searching and Manipulating Dependency Graphs
John Bauer | Chloé Kiddon | Eric Yeh | Alex Shan | Christopher D. Manning
Proceedings of the 21st International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT, GURT/SyntaxFest 2023)

Searching dependency graphs and manipulating them can be a time consuming and challenging task to get right. We document Semgrex, a system for searching dependency graphs, and introduce Ssurgeon, a system for manipulating the output of Semgrex. The compact language used by these systems allows for easy command line or API processing of dependencies. Additionally, integration with publicly released toolkits in Java and Python allows for searching text relations and attributes over natural text.