TIGERSearch corpora are organized in a hierarchical file system, i.e. related corpora are grouped in folders. To see the corpora available, select the Open tab in the information panel. Now you can browse through the corpus tree (upper-hand side of the tab), have a look at the corpus properties (lower-hand side), and finally load a corpus. The corpus properties are displayed if you mark a corpus symbol:
Figure: The TIGERSearch corpus tree
Corpus loading is activated by double-clicking the respective corpus symbol, or selecting the Open selected corpus item in the context menu (activated by right mouse click on the corpus symbol). The corpus loading process can be aborted any time by pressing the Cancel button in the corpus loading progress window:
Figure: Corpus loading progress window
Corpus hotkey
An interesting alternative to load a corpus is the so-called corpus hotkey. This is a brief list of the corpora last opened by the user (up to 15 corpora). You can view the list by pressing the hotkey button in the upper-left corner of the main window (cf. the following screenshot). If you select a corpus in the shorthand list, the corpus loading process will be started immediately.
Figure: Corpus hotkey
(Un)Succesful corpus loading
If the corpus has been successfully loaded, there will be up to two additional corpus information tabs in the information panel which are described in the following subsections (corpus bookmarks and corpus templates). The currently loaded corpus is also indicated by the corpus hotkey and by the title bar of the main window.
If there are any problems during the corpus loading process, all warning messages are stored for inspection. These messages can be displayed by clicking on the warning symbol in the corpus information tab. In the case of corpus loading problems, please check the corpus configuration in the TIGERRegistry tool.
Corpus autoload
An interesting feature is the so-called corpus autoload. If this feature has been activated (cf. Preferences item in the Options menu), the corpus opened when leaving the tool will be automatically loaded when the tool is started for the next time. By default, the autoload feature is activated.