@inproceedings{roussel-2026-fast,
    title = "Fast and Flexible Example-Based Treebank Search with Vector Symbolic Architectures",
    author = "Roussel, Adam",
    editor = "Hinrichs, Erhard  and
      Nivre, Joakim  and
      Osenova, Petya  and
      Pustejovsky, James  and
      Zinn, Claus",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation ({SL}i{DE})",
    month = may,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Palma de Mallorca, Spain",
    publisher = "ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/revision-previews/2026.slide-1.5/",
    doi = "10.63317/26p8zoerpa3d",
    pages = "64--73",
    abstract = "In this paper we introduce an example-based method for exploring dependency treebanks that is based on principles of vector symbolic architectures. It leverages key properties of this framework to provide fast and flexible search capabilities, since all combinations of query parameters can be compared with a given parse tree in parallel via a single vector operation. The framework also allows for graded similarity and the natural integration of various kinds of information, such as word embeddings. After some background on the framework and an explanation of our implementation, we provide a few examples of the system{'}s output and draw comparisons to similar applications."
}