[MonetDB-users] Xquery Standoff Annotation Success Stories? GATE too?

Hello,

I am looking for information and experiences with monetdb's standoff annotation extension for Xquery.

In particular, I'm looking for a way to more flexibly and conveniently search through documents I've manually annotated for semantic content using GATE (General Architecture for Text Engineering), which has its own standoff format. Has anyone had success in querying GATE documents using monetdb xquery with the standoff extension?

If not GATE, what are people using to produce the standoff notation?

thank you, -david

David Epstein PhD Candidate Urban & Regional Planning University of Michigan USA