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<p dir="ltr">The limit is as follows: you can only run queries. All other CQP operations are locked out (intentionally, it's for security - note that CQP unrestricted allows you to muck up your filesystem if you want!) and must be accessed indirectly via the
GUI tools of CQPweb.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The particular case you mention is covered by the frequency breakdown tool, I think (from the concordance screen).</p>
<p dir="ltr">>>Is there any good user guide or reference manual in written form?</p>
<p dir="ltr">There is a book: Corpus linguistics with BNCweb. (Don't be put off by the fact it is on BNCweb, 90% of it is about the things they have in common.)</p>
<p dir="ltr">Otherwise: no, there is no written documentation, nor will there ever be unless someone other than me writes it. This is for 3 reasons: most users prefer the videos, making the videos is drastically quicker than writing a comprehensive set of docs
would be, and I definitely do not have time to do both.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The exception is the admin side, of course -- due to how technical that side of the Content is. The sysadmin manual is incomplete, but reasonably comprehensive within the chapters that have been written to date.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Best</p>
<p dir="ltr">Andrew.</p>
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<div>Hi,<br>
<br>
If the answer to this question is to be found in some specific section <br>
of some manual or documentation, please point me to it but I haven't <br>
been able to find it consulting the documentation that is available to me.<br>
<br>
The question is simple. What are the exact limitations of the CQPWeb <br>
interface to use the full cqp syntax? In general I always recommend the <br>
CQPWeb interface to most of my undergraduate and to the new grad <br>
students because I find many are intimidated by the terminal (I work in <br>
the context of the humanities and except for very old people who still <br>
remember DOS, few people have experience using the command line in a <br>
terminal window).<br>
<br>
This generally works well but every once in a while when I'm trying to <br>
show them something I need to use the full CQP syntax because this is <br>
what I am most familiar with and I can remember better. Most regular <br>
searches are OK but the other day, for instance, I tried to get the <br>
frequencies of the particular lemmas appearing in the last position of a <br>
particular search involving only reference to POS and I got an error <br>
message. Unless I did something wrong (although I checked and it worked <br>
with the terminal), this doesn't seem to be possible in the web interface.<br>
<br>
I tried to use the 'frequency' option in the CQPWeb interface but I <br>
realized I didn't know how to use it properly. I know there are some <br>
wonderful videos but at that time I needed some written documentation to <br>
find information about what I needed to do and I wasn't able to find it. <br>
Is there any good user guide or reference manual in written form?<br>
<br>
I totally understand that the goal of CQPWeb is not to replicate the <br>
functionality of the command line and that by definition there are going <br>
to be some restrictions in what you can do. But is there any <br>
documentation where all of this is made explicit? I have access to the <br>
paper Andrew wrote and to some some tutorials people have created but is <br>
there any other more complete manual out there with more detailed <br>
information about what is possible and what isn't?<br>
<br>
Thanks a lot in advance and my apologies if I have ignored something <br>
that should be really obvious.<br>
<br>
JM<br>
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