[CWB] CQP Python interface

[Jørg Asmussen]

Hi!

Den 07/03/2008 kl. 13:13 skrev Stefan Evert:

> I know that some people have been working on a Python interface at  
> least for CQP -- we're currently working on our own implementation  
> in Osnabrück -- and I'd be interested in porting the C API for  
> direct corpus access from Perl to Python.

I might be one of those "some people". I almost literally translated  
Stefan's Perl CQP interface to Python, latest version attached in case  
anybody wants it or wants to place it on sf.net. However, there is one  
substantial modification to Stefan's code: I added a "progress  
controller" running in its own thread and controlling CQP's  
responsiveness. If CQP for some reason doesn't respond anymore, it  
will be killed by the controller. If this seems confusing, just  
comment out line 72 of the code. I need it in order to avoid CQP  
causing to block the corpus server software that uses this interface.

The Python CQP interface is just a minor part of the Python-based  
corpus server (PyCOCS) I've been developing over the past 2 years or  
so -- and which we are using as backend in our web-based corpus  
service KorpusDK (Danish, alas!), cf. test.ordnet.dk/korpusdk (not yet  
officially published, but almost finished, comments welcome!). If I  
ever figure out how to upload stuff to the cwb sf.net site, I might  
place the PyCOCS code there...

Well, I'd be interested in porting the C API too, but I'm not able to  
figure it out myself and I'm almost always lacking time. But maybe I  
and somebody else somewhen may find a slot for that ;-)

Best wishes,
Jörg



Jørg Asmussen

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