[CWB] Concordance returns multiple texts

[Kurt Sultana]

Thanks for you quick reply Andrew.

I guess this "noise" from other texts won't really have much effect on
collocation results I presume, right?

Thanks once again,
Kurt




On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Hardie, Andrew <a.hardie at lancaster.ac.uk>wrote:

>  Text elements are just an attribute, they aren’t treated specially in
> any way in the underlying index. So, if two texts were next to one another
> in the input data, the end of the first and the beginning one are seen as
> adjacent by CQP, and if you hit a word at the end of one text its
> concordance will include the beginning of the next.****
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> And re the final question: the answer is yes. Collocation does not take
> the XML into account at all at present. (Later it might.)****
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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 *Kurt Sultana
> *Sent:* 01 February 2013 20:53
> *To:* Open source development of the Corpus WorkBench
> *Subject:* [CWB] Concordance returns multiple texts****
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> Hi all, ****
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> I'm having this scenario: ****
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> I have two texts (this is an example, just for illustration): ****
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> <text id="1"><s>Hello</s></text>****
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> <text id="2"><s>Bye</s></text>****
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> When I search for concordances of "Hello", I'm also getting "Bye"
> adjacent. Does this make sense? Aren't text elements supposed to
> be separate unrelated entities? In my case, I'm representing separate news
> articles within <text> elements. ****
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> Does this also effect collocation?****
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> Thanks in advance,****
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> Kurt****
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