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Thanks Andrew. This clarifies things quite a bit. I had totally
forgotten about the security considerations. I think this came up a
while ago when somebody (perhaps myself) asked about some other
functionality of CQPWeb. At any rate, I will check the available
videos to become a bit more familiar with the additional
functionalities of CQPWeb. Also, I checked in our library and it
turns out we have quite a few copies of the book so I will be able
to obtain all the information I need.<br>
<br>
I have a little doubt about one of the things you said, though. You
should obviously know better than me but I haven't been able to do
what I said I had tried to do via the frequency breakdown tool. What
I get with the frequency breakdown tool is the frequencies of
instantiations of the whole search string. So if the search string
is 'lemma X POS Y', the frequency breakdown yields the frequency of
different instantiations of this whole string as specific
combinations of tokens (frequency breakdown of words only) or the
frequency of the specific combination of tags (frequency breakdown
of annotation only) or the frequency for specific combinations of
both. <br>
<br>
What I was trying to obtain was the frequency of lemmas that are
instantiations of 'POS Y' in a search string of the form 'lemma X
POS Y'. In the command line I would have used:<br>
<br>
$ count Last by lemma %cd on matchend; <br>
<br>
This, as far as I can tell and without having read the relevant
sections in the book (I have not checked it out from the library
yet), appears not to be possible via the CQPWeb interface. I have a
couple of grad students who needed to work with one of our corpora
and I thought that for the kinds of things they needed to do at this
point the CQPWeb would more than suffice. This kind of information
about frequencies, however, is useful for them so I guess I will
have to convince them that the command line will not eat them alive
when they are distracted and that it didn't harm any of the other
students that used it before them.<br>
<br>
Thanks again guys for the tool and for the help.<br>
<br>
JM<br>
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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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