[CWB] Beta testers needed

[Stefan Evert]

Hi everyone!

The time has come at last: I've got some work for enthusiastic beta  
testers.  The first release candidate of the Open CWB is available as  
a source code tarball from the sourceforge project page (you'll also  
find a link at http://cwb.sourceforge.net/).  Can you please download  
the source code and play around with it?  I've reorganised quite a  
lot of stuff, so I'd like to know if it still compiles on all  
platforms, whether the build instructions are clear enough, etc.

It would be good to test as many platforms as possible before we  
announce the release in public, but I'm particularly looking for  
volunteers who can test the CWB on 64-bit machines (it compiles all  
right on our Opteron server, but we haven't run any thorough tests  
yet) with really large corpora.  I'm testing it with DEWAC and most  
of UKWAC (I couldn't fit in the last two files because of size  
limitations in the CWB).

If no big problems crop up, we're ready and set for a public release,  
and then you can all start contributing to the source code (or the  
documentation, which would be _really_ nice).  And I will have to  
rewrite the CWB/Perl interface to be compatible with the new version.

Best wishes to all of you,
Stefan

PS: It is not entirely coincidental that I'm going away on a short  
holiday right now and will be completely out of e-mail reach for at  
least a week. :o))



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