| COSMAS: | |
| - disjunctions with more than 2 arguments are parsed as nested by ANTLR grammar: | |
| "A oder B oder C" becomes (simplified) "A|(B|C)" | |
| - using stacks proves to be a good choice for tree processing | |
| - queries of form "A B C" where A, B, C are terms of type <R> (see http://www.ids-mannheim.de/cosmas2/win-app/hilfe/suchanfrage/eingabe-grafisch/syntax/ARGUMENT_R.html) | |
| are strictly speaking not well-formed since there is no linking operator between the individual terms. The Cosmas II web app offers two alternatives of how to interpret | |
| such lacking operators: as a logical OR or as a /+w1 distance operator. In KorAP, the second alternative will be chose as this appears to be more intuitive (effectively, | |
| the query expresses a sequence of terms) and more in line with other QLs (e.g. Poliqarp) | |
| - distance operators allow to specify a minimal and maximal distance between their arguments, in the form "/wn:m" where n and m are integers. In case only one number | |
| is given (like "/w2"), Cosmas II interprets this as the maximal distance. Note that it is not possible to specify a minimal but possibly infinite distance between to | |
| tokens - for obvious reasons. | |
| - operands of distance operators to be expressed via shrink/classes? | |
| - #BEG() and #END() are solved via shrink, with the shrink argument not being a class but a position (first/last) indicating the first or last word in the matched sequence | |