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The IMS Corpus Workbench:

Corpus Query Processor (`CQP`)

User's Manual

Oliver Christ, Bruno M. Schulze, Anja Hofmann, and Esther König

Copyright: University of Stuttgart
Institute for Natural Language Processing
Azenbergstr. 12, 70174 Stuttgart, Germany
http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/CorpusWorkbench/

August 16, 1999 (CQP V2.2)

Contents
Introduction
- Corpora, Annotations, Queries, and Results
- Organization of this manual
Basic interaction with CQP
Access to single corpus positions
Access to sequences of corpus positions
- Regular expressions over attribute expressions
- Sequence patterns
Access to structural information
- Predefined structures
- Ad hoc structures
  - Structural restrictions for matches
Access to multilevel annotation
- Alignment constraints
  - Remarks
Inspection of query results
The cqp and cqpcl commands
- Environment variables for CQP
- Command line options
  - General options
    - Help
      - -h
    - Batch mode
      - -f
    - Binary output
      - -i
    - Protected mode
      - -x
  - Basic interaction
    - Corpus selection
      - -D
    - Browsing method
      - -P
    - Context size
  - Sequence patterns
    - Size of matches
      - -b
Special characters
Incremental corpus exploration
- Saving of intermediate results
- Erasing of intermediate results
Index
References
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Esther Koenig-Baumer
8/16/1999

The IMS Corpus Workbench: Corpus Query Processor (CQP) User's Manual

The IMS Corpus Workbench:

Corpus Query Processor (`CQP`)

User's Manual