[CWB] Announcement: Another CWB/CQPweb setup in China

[Josep M. Fontana]

Hi,

I am a little (or quite) confused about the syntax of CQPweb queries 
(simple query language). I went to the wonderful resource Ray Wu has 
made available so that I could see how it works since we are in the 
process of installing CQPweb as an interface for our corpora. I wasn't 
able to complete any search using the simple query language, though. I'm 
sure it is something very simple that I am missing.  From what I 
understand reading the document 'simple query language syntax', I should 
be able to do the following in the simple query mode:

_JJ _NN1

which would supposedly look for sequences of an adjective followed by 
noun according to the CLAWS tag set.

OK, I'm conducting the searches in the Old Icelandic Corpus which has 
been supposedly tagged using the CLAWS7 tagset (according to the 
information in "View corpus metadata". When I do this, however, I get a 
message saying "Your query had no results. There are no matches for your 
query." This is very puzzling because you would imagine that there would 
be occurrences of adjectives followed by nouns. Doing it the opposite 
order (_NN1 _JJ) gives me the same results. What is even more puzzling 
is that I also get nothing using single POS labels such as _NN1 by 
itself or _JJ.

Am I doing something wrong or is this due to the fact that this 
particular corpus uses a completely different tagset? When you access a 
CQPWeb corpus, is there any way to retrieve the tags that have been used 
in the corpus? The only relevant info I find in this corpus is the link 
to the CLAWS7 tagset but, as I said, this doesn't seem to be the right 
information. Going into the CQP syntax mode and doing "show +pos" 
doesn't work.


JM

> Dear members,
>
> We are pleased to announce another CWB/CQPweb setup in China and we 
> dub it BFSU CQPweb. It is closely modelled after Hardie's own (sorry 
> Andrew, we're badly in need of imagination) and currently features 
> more than 20 corpora, including two Brown family cousins (CLOB and 
> Crown) developed at Beijing Foreign Studies Unversity by Dr. Xu 
> Jiajing and Professor Liang Maocheng.
>
> You may access it from http://124.193.83.252/cqp/ using test/test as 
> username/password.
>
> We'd like to take this opportunity to thank the CWB team for their 
> wonderful work and generosity. It is great fun to build our work on 
> their shoulders.
>
> Best,
> Ray
>
>
>
>
>
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