3.4 Viewing corpus log files

The conversion of corpora into the TIGER-XML format and the indexing of TIGER-XML corpora are both implemented in a robust way, i.e. both processes are also capable of handling corpus sentences that do not fulfill the syntactic and semantic restrictions in some minor points. However, warnings and error messages are produced in these cases. All these messages are collected in two corpus log files which are stored in the corpus directory of the new corpus:

conversion.log

Warnings and errors that have been produced during the corpus conversion process, i.e. during the conversion to TIGER-XML.

indexing.log

Warnings and errors that have been produced during the corpus indexing process.

After corpus indexing you may inspect these messages in order to modify your corpus. Of course, you might view these files using your favourite external editor. However, you can also have a look at these files within the TIGERRegistry window. Just mark the corpus your interested in and select the Corpus Logfiles item in the Corpus submenu of the context menu or select the corresponding item in the TIGERRegistry menu.

Now the corpus logging window pops up. It displays the content of the two log files. To keep track of all the messages, the keywords Warning and Error are displayed green-colored and red-colored, respectively.

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Figure: Viewing corpus log files