[CWB] [CQPweb] Docker image of CQPweb

[Luigi Talamo]

Dear all,
after three years I have finally updated the Docker image for CQPweb.
It is still based on the Docker version of r-base, so it comes with a
basic installation of R for your statistical needs. Since I was unable
to compile CWB libraries on linux/arm64 (I am on an Apple Silicon M1
and the Docker subsystem uses the same architecture), the image is
forced to use linux/amd64 as the operating system. It is perhaps a bit
slower due to the architecture mismatch (it is interpreted using
Rosetta 2), but it still runs fine; needless to say, it should run
flawlessly on native amd64 systems. You can find the image here:

https://github.com/rahonalab/CQPweb-docker.git

The image also features the CWB perl tools, so it can be used to
encode corpora as well.

Happy corpus linguistics!
Luigi

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 6:39 PM Luigi Talamo <talamo.luigi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
> there has been recently on this list an interest for self-installing
> packages of CQPweb/CWB, with alternatives ranging from VirtualBox
> images to bash scripts. Another alternative is Docker, an OS-level
> virtualisation (meaning that, at least on Linux system, software run
> on the OS kernel) available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS.
> Last summer I put together a Docker image of CQPweb, which is based on
> the official Docker image of R. Although it uses the latest version of
> CQPweb and CWB, it is reasonably stable. I have recently updated this
> image to encode a multilingual corpus we are preparing here in
> Saarbrücken and extensively tested this solution on UTF-8 texts
> aligned with cwb-align (also shipped in the Docker image).
>
> You can find the image here:
>
> https://git.rahona.be/luigi/docker-CQPweb
>
> (I am slowly getting rid of M$ github)
>
> cheers,
> Luigi
>
> --
> Luigi Talamo
>
> Post-doc
>
> Universität des Saarlandes
>
> Language Science and Technology
>
> Saarbrücken