[CWB] CQPWeb -- Query restriction using file-level free text metadata

Martí Quixal marti.quixal at gmail.com
Wed Oct 31 15:02:50 CET 2012


Andrew, I agree with you except that I could imagine a box or set of
boxes/drop-down menus (maybe one that you could show/hide) with a behaviour
similar to the current option for building subcorpora. Though maybe this is
something more for a customisation of CQPWeb than for the standard
distribution.

Please don't take this as I am willing to suggest any changes. It's already
very useful and easy how it currently is (for a typical user).

Thanks a lot and congratulations for this awesome work!

Best regards,
Marti


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> No, there?s not.
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> best
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> Andrew.
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> From: cwb-bounces at sslmit.unibo.it [mailto:cwb-bounces at sslmit.unibo.it] On
> Behalf Of Mart? Quixal
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> Subject: [CWB] CQPWeb -- Negation operator in simple query language
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> Hi,
>
> I can seem to find the negation operator for the simple query language.
> Like != in CQP syntax. Is there one?
>
> Thanks in advance,
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> The Restricted Query interface works solely off Classification metadata.
> The ?right way? to search free-text metadata is via the subcorpus-create
> function, as you suspect.
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> The difference is that for Classifications, zones of the corpus are
> predefined and can therefore be used to set up selectable restrictions.
> With free-text metadata there is no knowing what someone is going to search
> for ? so they have to actually search for what they want i.e. via the
> subcorpus interface and then once they?ve found a selection of texts, the
> subcorpus becomes available for restricting queries.
>
> I won?t argue that this will never be clumsy/confusing, however, I submit
> that this organisation is less clumsy and confusing than it would be to
> cram both the classification-based restrictions and the (multiple) search
> forms for free-text metadata all into one web form!
>
> best
>
> Andrew.
>
> From: cwb-bounces at sslmit.unibo.it [mailto:cwb-bounces at sslmit.unibo.it] On
> Behalf Of Mart? Quixal
> Sent: 30 October 2012 23:00
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> Subject: [CWB] CQPWeb -- Query restriction using file-level free text
> metadata
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a corpus for which I have file level metadata in CQP web. I
> currently have a couple of classification metadata and a couple of free
> text metadata.
>
> When I go to the Restricted query interface I get checkboxes for Gender
> and Location (my classification metadata) but not for the others (Interview
> ID, Age, Year). Is there any possibility to restrict queries on the basis
> of those free text metadata on this restricted query interface. I have seen
> I can create subcorpora, but that seems can be a bit clumsy/confusing for
> the users (foreign language teachers) I have in mind.
>
> By the way in the "Manage metadata" interface I have seen I can include
> corpus-level metadata. Are these metadata different from the metadata added
> at the text-level (that is, using the text id)?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> --
> Mart? Quixal
> Computational Linguist & Educational Technologist
> http://www.iqubo.org/quixal
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