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CQPwebInABox

CQPwebInABox running on VMware Player

CQPwebInABox running on VMware Player

Excellent news! A couple of days ago, Andrew Hardie released a virtual machine with a preconfigured version of CQPweb installed:


> From: a.hardie(*at*)lancaster.ac.uk
> To: cwb(*at*)sslmit.unibo.it
> Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 05:20:33 +0000
> Subject: [CWB] Announcing CQPwebInABox
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> This is just a quick note to announce the availability of CQPwebInABox
> – a virtual machine image containing a pre-installed copy of CQPweb.
>
> This is designed to get beginners past the hump of having to install
> all the different components.
>
> The image (1.6GB) can be downloaded here:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/cwb/files/CQPwebInABox/
>
>
> To run it, you will need to install VirtualBox (although I believe
> other virtualisation tools can also use the same file format, I haven’t
> yet tested this).
>
> You can get VirtualBox here:
> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
> Then “import appliance” from the .ova download.
>
> The virtual machine runs Linux – however, I have set it up in such a
> way as to make the interface as similar to Windows as possible. So
> don’t fear the Linux!
>
> I will create some video tutorials & put them on YouTube as soon as I can.
>
> Feedback welcome.
>
> best
>
> Andrew.

CQPweb

2024-11-06 Developer / Project Head: Andrew Hardie
Purpose/Version/Date web interface to cwb stable: 3.2.43 dev: 3.3.15 6 November 2024 Platform/License web-based (also on localhost) open source License: GNU GPLv2+ Price/Availability free Programming Language(s): php, mysql, Perl Key features: SERVER INSTALLATION, MANAGE YOUR OWN CORPORA, WEB INTERFACE, CQP QUERIES Website: CQPweb project page Website: CQPWeb SVN Repository Website: UCREL Lancaster Corpus Server (free access to a lot of corpus resources after registration, including the extended Brown-family of corpora) Website: CQPweb at Beijing Foreign Studies University – Large Number of publicly accessible corpora (username: test, password: test) Website: CQPweb Video Tutorials Website: CQPwebInABox Video Tutorials
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VIEW (Visual Input Enhancement of the Web):

Instant colourization of grammar structures, instant learning activities from any page on the web. Supported languages: English, German, Spanish.

VIEW Toolbar

VIEW Toolbar – Firefox Add-on (Screenshot taken on Linux Mint 64-bit, extension is available on all major operating systems (Windows/Mac OSX/Linux)

Colourised prepositions in a Guardian Article published two hours ago ...

Colourized prepositions in a Guardian Article published two hours ago … (2 clicks and 10 seconds away)!

... multiple choice exercise on prepositions in the same article (2 clicks and 10 seconds away)!

… multiple-choice exercise on prepositions in the same article (2 clicks and 10 seconds away)!

 

 

New Release: NoSketchEngine

The SketchEngine development team has just released a new open-source version of their tools (bonito, manatee, finlibDownload-Links), including the following highlights:

  • extended support for parallel corpora
  • support for virtual corpora
  • asynchronous query processing showing partial results as they are computed
  • corpus info page providing an overall overview of the corpus stats
  • lots of smaller enhancements in the functionality and usability of the user interface
  • lots of speed enhancements, both for run time (query evaluation) and compile time (corpus indexing)
  • lots of bugfixes

Source: http://nlp.fi.muni.cz/trac/noske/wiki/Downloads [accessed: 13/06/2014]

ForBetterEnglish

Class-room friendly collocations dictionary:

[Last update: 03/06/2015]

http://forbetterenglish.com/ (superseded by SkELLSketch Engine for Language Learning)

12-03-2014 14-55-48

 

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References:

  • Kilgarriff, A. (2014, March). “Corpora in the classroom without scaring the students.” British Council – EnglishAgenda Seminar. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2APIUxE_i6M [Adam’s talk starts at 1:09:35]
  • Adam Kilgarriff, Miloš Husák, Katy McAdam, Michael Rundell, Pavel Rychlý (2008). “GDEX: Automatically Finding Good Dictionary Examples in a Corpus.” In Elisenda Bernal, Janet DeCesaris (Ed.), Proceedings of the 13th EURALEX International Congress (pp. 425–432). Barcelona, Spain: Institut Universitari de Linguistica Aplicada, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Retrieved from EURALEX 2008

 

TurnKey virtual appliances

“Turnkey Linux is a virtual appliance library that integrates and polishes the very best open source software into ready to use solutions.”

Excellent base system for CQPweb, ParaVozAntWebCorpusFramework, NoSketchEngine, etc.

Source: http://www.turnkeylinux.org/ [accessed: 03/03/2014]

  • LAMP Stack Virtual Appliance (~220MB, linux base system [Debian7], admin through convenient web-gui, accessible from any (local) machine within minutes)

CQPweb

CQPweb

2024-11-06 Developer / Project Head: Andrew Hardie
Purpose/Version/Date web interface to cwb stable: 3.2.43 dev: 3.3.15 6 November 2024 Platform/License web-based (also on localhost) open source License: GNU GPLv2+ Price/Availability free Programming Language(s): php, mysql, Perl Key features: SERVER INSTALLATION, MANAGE YOUR OWN CORPORA, WEB INTERFACE, CQP QUERIES Website: CQPweb project page Website: CQPWeb SVN Repository Website: UCREL Lancaster Corpus Server (free access to a lot of corpus resources after registration, including the extended Brown-family of corpora) Website: CQPweb at Beijing Foreign Studies University – Large Number of publicly accessible corpora (username: test, password: test) Website: CQPweb Video Tutorials Website: CQPwebInABox Video Tutorials
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AntWebCorpusFramework

AntWebCorpusFramework

2012-09-25 Developer / Project Head: Laurence Anthony
Purpose/Version/Date Web‐based framework for distribution and analysis of single and parallel corpora 1.0 25 Sep 2012 Platform/License Win/Linux/OSX freeware / open source / available on request at http://www.laurenceanthony.net License: not specified Price/Availability free Programming Language(s): Perl, php Key features: MINIMAL PRE-PROCESSING REQUIRED, SERVER INSTALLATION, (PARALLEL) KWIC, SORTING, HIGHLIGHTING OF KEYWORD IN PARALLEL CORPUS, ACTIVE SENTENCE HIGHLIGHTING, WEBPARANEWS, ANTWEBCONC Website: Laurence Anthony\’s Homepage (EN) Website: AntWCF EN-DE (sample implemenation 2014) Website: WebParaNews EN-JP (sample implemenation 2012) Website: Step-by-step installation guide on Xubuntu 12.04 LTS
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