[CWB] A formal specification of CQL?

[Yannick Versley]

Does this mean that the binary corpus files made with CWB 2.x through 3.2
(and possibly
any corpora compiled with the NoSke tools) will stop working with CQP 3.9/4?

Best wishes,
Yannick

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 6:34 PM, Hardie, Andrew <a.hardie at lancaster.ac.uk>
wrote:

> I see!  That ticket is now here (due to sourceforge changing the tracker
> software):
>
> http://sourceforge.net/p/cwb/feature-requests/46/
>
> Actually, I'm going to close it as WONTFIX: there seems little point in
> spending a lot of time writing about file formats that we are going to
> chuck  out in versions 3.9 and 4, and I will document the new file formats
> as I'm in the process of inventing them...
>
> Andrew.
>
> PS thanks for that parser state diagram. It confirms what I always
> suspected, to be frank.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cwb-bounces at sslmit.unibo.it [mailto:cwb-bounces at sslmit.unibo.it] On
> Behalf Of Serge Heiden
> Sent: 30 January 2015 15:25
> To: cwb at sslmit.unibo.it
> Subject: Re: [CWB] A formal specification of CQL?
>
> Thank you Andrew, I found it: it was the content of a ticket:
> http://devel.sslmit.unibo.it/pipermail/cwb/2012-July/001042.html
>
> Best,
> Serge
>
> Le 30/01/2015 16:05, Hardie, Andrew a écrit :
> > We generally call it "CQP Syntax" rather than "Corpus Query Language",
> although lots of people working on other software have gravitated to the
> latter.
> >
> > The code of the parser is written as a Bison grammar, which *is* thus in
> effect a formal specification!
> >
> > It's in cqp/parser.y (see also parser.l).
> >
> > See:
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/p/cwb/code/HEAD/tree/cwb/trunk/cqp/parser.y
> >
> > And to search the list, use
> >
> > site:devel.sslmit.unibo.it/pipermail/cwb
> >
> > in a Google search.
> >
> > best
> >
> > Andrew.
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cwb-bounces at sslmit.unibo.it [mailto:cwb-bounces at sslmit.unibo.it]
> > On Behalf Of Serge Heiden
> > Sent: 30 January 2015 14:46
> > To: cwb at sslmit.unibo.it
> > Subject: Re: [CWB] A formal specification of CQL?
> >
> > Not to my knowledge.
> >
> > There's been a thread on a similar topic before.
> > Is there any search engine available to search in all CWB mailing list
> > archive at once? (I can't remember when it was).
> >
> > For fun, you can have a look at the network of the CQP parser states
> > here:
> > https://groupes.renater.fr/wiki/txm-info/_media/cqpsyntax.dot.jpeg
> >
> > Serge H.
> >
> > Le 30/01/2015 14:36, Jörg Knappen a écrit :
> >> Is there a formal specification of the Corpus Query Language, e.g.,
> >> in EBNF format, available?
> >>
> >> --Jörg Knappen
> >>
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