CQPweb — combining power, flexibility and usability in a corpus analysis tool

Abstract

CQPweb is a new web-based corpus analysis system, intended to address the conflicting requirements for usability and power in corpus analysis software. To do this, its user interface emulates the BNCweb system. Like BNCweb, CQPweb is built on two separate query technologies: the IMS Open Corpus Workbench and the MySQL relational database. CQPweb’s main innovative feature is its flexibility; its more generalised data model makes it compatible with any corpus. The analysis options available in CQPweb include: concordancing; collocations; distribution tables and charts; frequency lists; and keywords or key tags. An evaluation of CQPweb against criteria earlier laid down for a future web-based corpus analysis tool suggests that it fulfils many, but not all, of the requirements foreseen for such a piece of software. Despite some limitations, in making a sophisticated query system accessible to untrained users, CQPweb combines ease of use, power and flexibility to a very high degree.

Fictive motion in the context of mountaineering

“…The corpus is available through the CQPWeb, a user interface for the CQP query processor which allows corpus querying (Hardie, 2012). We queried it for nouns either followed immediately by a verb (e.g., "the ridge runs") or linked by a determiner (e.g., "a ridge that runs") and restricted our query to the past and present tense of verbs, since the corpus mostly represents narratives of past ascents and overviews of routes and geographic areas.…”

Comparative evaluation of tools for Arabic corpora search and analysis

“…2010;Sharoff, 2014) 7. CQPweb at Lancaster (Hardie, 2012(Hardie, , 2014 As mentioned previously, the tools selected were designed to support Arabic along with other languages. There may be further software programs beyond those that the researchers selected for evaluation, and more can be included in an extended evaluation in the future.…”

“…The Sketch Engine (Kilgarriff et al, 2004;Kilgarriff, 2014), IntelliText Corpus Queries (Wilson et al,. 2010;Sharoff, 2014), CQPweb at Lancaster (Hardie, 2012(Hardie, , 2014, so in order to use them, researchers need to be persistently online. Other tools are PCbased, so they can be downloaded on computers and used offline, such as the KACST Arabic Corpora Processing Tool "Khawas" (Al-thubaity et al, 2013, aConCorde (Roberts et al, 2006;Roberts, 2014), AntConc (Anthony, 2005(Anthony, , 2014a, WordSmith Tools (Scott, 2008(Scott, , 2012.…”

From Digital Resources to Historical Scholarship with the British Library 19th Century Newspaper Collection

“…The Nineteenth Century Newspapers corpus arrived with us on disk in the format shown in convert the text into a suitable form for analysis in CQPweb, a corpus software package (Hardie 2012 (Tanner et al 2009). A simple example of this is visible in Fig.…”