The IMS Corpus Workbench:



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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
/fak5/ims/CorpusWorkbench/

August 16, 1999 (CQP V2.2)

• Contents
• Introduction
  • Corpora, Annotations, Queries, and Results
  • Organization of this manual
• Basic interaction with CQP
  • Starting and leaving CQP
  • Selecting a corpus
  • A simple query
  • Displaying a query result
    • Setting the AutoShow system variable
    • Basic display method
    • Changing the browsing method
    • Restricting the size of the result
      • Restricted search
      • Random reduction of a result
    • Changing the context size
    • Displaying corpus annotations
      • Positional attributes
      • Structural attributes
      • Multilevel annotation
    • Sending a result to a file or a Unix pipe
      • Print modes
      • Print options
  • Profiling
    • Evaluation time
    • User interaction
    • Warnings and messages
• Access to single corpus positions
  • Representations of characters
  • Regular expressions over characters
    • Embedded regular expressions
    • Concatenation
    • Disjunction
    • Lists of alternative characters
    • Unspecified character
    • Optionality
    • Iteration (Kleene star and Kleene plus)
    • Flags
    • A nontrivial example
  • String variables
  • Attribute Expressions
    • Attributes
    • Boolean expressions over attribute-value pairs
      • Embedded Boolean expressions
      • Conjunction
      • Disjunction
      • Negation
      • Operator precedence
• Access to sequences of corpus positions
  • Regular expressions over attribute expressions
    • Embedded regular expressions
    • Concatenation
    • Disjunction
      • Evaluation strategy
    • Unspecified corpus position
    • Optionality
    • Iteration (Kleene star and Kleene plus)
    • Restricted iteration
      • Multipliers
      • Local upper bound of match size
      • Global upper bound of match size
      • Expansion of matches
  • Sequence patterns
    • Named queries
      • Remarks
    • Conjunction
    • Disjunction
    • Negation
    • Embedded Boolean expressions
• Access to structural information
  • Predefined structures
    • Use of structural tags in regular expressions
    • Structural restrictions for matches
    • Expansion of matches
  • Ad hoc structures
    • Structural restrictions for matches
• Access to multilevel annotation
  • Alignment constraints
    • Remarks
• Inspection of query results
  • Marked corpus positions
    • Remarks
    • Two marked positions
  • Alphabetical sorting
    • Remarks
  • Frequency-based sorting
    • Remarks
• The cqp and cqpcl commands
  • Environment variables for CQP
    • CORPUS_REGISTRY
    • CQP_LOCAL_CORP_DIR
    • PAGER
  • 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
        • -W
        • -L
        • -R
    • Sequence patterns
      • Size of matches
        • -b
• Special characters
• Incremental corpus exploration
  • Saving of intermediate results
  • Erasing of intermediate results
• Index
• References
• About this document ...