[CWB] Question about CWB::CQP::More

[Scott Sadowsky]

Dear Alberto,

I sent an e-mail to the CWB mailing list about a problem I'm having with 
(what I believe is your) CWB::CQP::More module, but it didn't seem to go 
anywhere, so I thought you might be able to lend me a hand. If so, 
thanks a million!

Here's the message:

I'm working on a Perl script to allow me to automate multiple queries 
using CWB::CQP::More, and I've run into a problem. Specifically, all 
searches seem to be treated as if they were on the field "word", 
regardless of what I specify.

These are the results when I perform the queries inside CQP in 
interactive mode:

[word = "importante"];    =>    43 matches
[word = "importantes"];    =>    18 matches
[lemma = "importante"];    =>    61 matches

All is as it should be -- the first two words are lemmatized to 
"importante", and searching on the lemma gives a number of hits that's 
the sum of the word forms.

But this is what happens when I do the searches through the 
CQB::CQP::More module:

word = "importante";    =>    43 matches
word = "importantes";    =>    18 matches
lemma = "importante";    =>    43 matches

The number of lemmas here is equal *only* to the number of tokens of the 
first word. I've done multiple tests, and this is invariably the case. 
Since the lemma is identical to the singular form of the adj/noun (this 
is Spanish, by the way), I'm assuming that for some reason the lemma 
search is treated as a simple word search.

You'll notice that the queries passed through CQB::CQP::More don't have 
brackets. That's because the query fails with an error if I add them. 
Here are a few snippets of the code, in case it helps:

my $query_type = "lemma";
my $query_item = "importante";
my $query_to_send_to_cqp = "\[$query_type = \"$query_item\"\];";
$cqp->exec($query_to_send_to_cqp);
my $result_size = $cqp->size($query_type);
my @lines = $cqp->cat($query_type);
foreach (@lines) {print STDOUT "\n$_";}

I believe the brackets in the query are correctly escaped, since when I 
print the value of $query_to_send_to_cqp right before the query is run, 
it returns (in this case) the following:

[lemma = "importante"];

But, as I said, this throws an error and returns 0 results instead of 
giving me 61 matches:

Use of uninitialized value $result_size in concatenation (.) or string 
at ./IMS-CWB-Auto-Query_vnnn.pl line 88, <GEN1> line 1.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong here?