[CWB] CQL Visualization Script

[Serge Sharoff]

Dear Maarten,

we have a CQL query builder in Intellitext:
http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk/itweb/htdocs/Query.html[1] 


The source is available from 
https://sourceforge.net/projects/csar/[2] 

Best,
Serge

On Saturday, 8 September 2018 12:16:20 BST Maarten Janssen wrote:
> For easy of use, I wrote a JS script that can take a CQL query (yes I know
> you object to that name, but it is what everybody uses), and create a DIV
> with boxes representing the query in  a (hopefully)  ore easy to read
> fashion. It comes together with a query builder that helps to build a CQL
> query - this is done in TEITOK, so the QB can use much more data than you
> would have based merely on the registry file (I could make a public version
> where you can paste a registry file and it will create a QB from that if
> there is any interest in such a tool). You can see it in action for
> instance in the Postscriptum corpus (it is very recent addition, there
> might still be issues with it):
> 
> 	http://ps.clul.ul.pt/index.php?action=cqp
> 
> For the queries built with the QB, the visualization works quite nicely. But
> the visualizer also works with CQL queries typed in manually - and of
> course, CQL is much richer than what the QB can generate. So there are
> quite a few parts of CQL that the visualizer does not handle. Now
> visualizing very complex queries (including groupings of tokens and such)
> is probably not very useful to start with since anyone writing those is
> likely to be much more at ease just reading the CQL than with any
> visualization mode. But the visualizer also gives a warning that there is
> something wrong with the query - which will hence sometimes be an error of
> the tool and not of the CQL.
> 
> I know there are a lot of CQL tools out there - not only including the
> various CWB based web interfaces (Korp, Bwananet, etc.), but also most
> other corpus engines (NoSKE, Corpuscle, and TEITOK’s own TT-CQP) use CQL or
> something close to it. So before delving into all the nasty little bits of
> CQL - does anyone know of a JS-based Query builder, visualisation mode, or
> at least CQL parser out there? Or a parser in a more readable format than
> the C-version inside the CWB source codes?
> _______________________________________________
> CWB mailing list
> CWB at sslmit.unibo.it
> http://liste.sslmit.unibo.it/mailman/listinfo/cwb


--------
[1] http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk/itweb/htdocs/Query.html
[2] https://sourceforge.net/projects/csar/
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://liste.sslmit.unibo.it/pipermail/cwb/attachments/20180910/e4a250f4/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image
Type: image/png
Size: 62400 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://liste.sslmit.unibo.it/pipermail/cwb/attachments/20180910/e4a250f4/attachment-0001.png>