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The CQP Query Language Tutorial

(CWB version 2.2.b90)

Stefan Evert
stefan.evert@uos.de

Date: 10 July 2005

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• Contents
• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 The IMS Corpus Workbench (CWB)
  • 1.2 The CWB corpus data model
  • 1.3 Corpora used in the tutorial
  
  
• 2 Basic CQP features
  • 2.1 Getting started
  • 2.2 Searching for words
  • 2.3 Display options
  • 2.4 Useful options
  • 2.5 Accessing token-level annotations
  • 2.6 Combinations of attribute constraints: Boolean expressions
  • 2.7 Sequences of words: token-level regular expressions
  • 2.8 Example: finding ``nearby'' words
  • 2.9 Sorting and counting
  
  
• 3 Working with query results
  • 3.1 Named query results
  • 3.2 Saving data to disk
  • 3.3 Anchor points
  • 3.4 Frequency distributions
  • 3.5 Set operations with named query results
  • 3.6 The set target command
  
  
• 4 Labels and structural attributes
  • 4.1 Using labels
  • 4.2 Structural attributes
  • 4.3 Structural attributes and XML
  • 4.4 XML document structure
  
  
• 5 Advanced CQP features
  • 5.1 The matching strategy
  • 5.2 Word lists
  • 5.3 Subqueries
  • 5.4 The CQP macro language
  • 5.5 CQP macro examples
  • 5.6 Feature set attributes (GERMAN-LAW)
  
  
• 6 Undocumented CQP
  • 6.1 Zero-width assertions
  • 6.2 Labels and scope
  • 6.3 Running CQP as a backend
  • 6.4 Exchanging corpus positions with external programs
  • 6.5 Generating frequency tables
  • 6.6 Easter eggs
  
  
• A. Appendix
  • A..1 Summary of regular expression syntax
  • A..2 Part-of-speech tags and useful regular expressions
  • A..3 Annotations of the tutorial corpora
  • A..4 Reserved words in the CQP language
  
  
• About this document ...

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Stefan Evert 2005-07-12