CorpusSearch A tool for linguistic research
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A tool for linguistic research CorpusSearch is a free and open source Java-based application that supports research in corpus linguistics. CorpusSearch is useful both for the construction of syntactically annotated (parsed) corpora and for searching them. Running CorpusSearch on an appropriately annotated corpus a user can automatically:· find and count lexical and syntactic configurations of any complexity· correct systematic errors· code the linguistic features of corpus sentences for later statistical analysis How to start CorpusSearch:· Download CS.jar from sourceforge ().· Put the file in a convenient place, for example the "Applications" folder under Mac OS X or the "Program Files" folder under Windows.· Open a window that allows you to run commands - the Terminal program under Mac OS X, an xterm window under Unix or Linux, the command line or MS-DOS prompt under Windows.· Assuming that you have put CS.jar into the folder FOO, the following line will start CorpusSearch in any flavor of Unix that has Java installed (including Mac OS X):· java -classpath /FOO/CS.jar csearch/CorpusSearchNOTE: CorpusSearch is licensed and distributed under the terms of the Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL 1.1). Here are some key features of "CorpusSearch": · Tree search configurations in CS are defined in a Boolean query language over tree predicates. · The output of a CS search is itself searchable. · CS runs on any Java-supported platform. · The CS query language contains many features to make searching easier and more intuitive for linguistic research. · CS has extensive user configuration options. Requirements: · Java 1.3 or later What's New in This Release: · Changes to collapse/expand.

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