[CWB] Strange behaviour of cqpWeb?

[Hardie, Andrew]

Hi Josep,

Apropos of nothing, that's a very nice CSS layout you have there. 

ANYWAY: nothing is wrong. In the second screenshot, one of the query results (number 6) has a lefthand context that is very wide (because a ton of tokens are coming out as [UNREADABLE]). That makes that column of the display so wide that all the other columns are out of sight rightwards. Since the lefthand context is right-aligned, even that is invisible. So fi you scroll rightwards, it will all become visible. 

Browsers generally try to hide their scrollbars these days, but hopefully you should be able to make the horizontal scrollbar reveal itself so you can scroll rightwards and check that the above is correct.

The *real* question is why certain tokens are coming out as [UNREADABLE]. This ought in theory never to happen. It *used* to happen when the form of a token confused the regular expressions used to extract words/tags from the CQP concordance. But that system was changed years ago so it should not be possible for the system to get confused any longer. If you can let me know what the underlying data from your vertical file is at that point in the corpus, I may be able to let you know what the issue is. 

best

Andrew.

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From: CWB <cwb-bounces at sslmit.unibo.it> On Behalf Of Josep M. Fontana via CWB
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Subject: [CWB] Strange behaviour of cqpWeb?


Hi there. Perhaps you can help me understand why this happens. Depending
on the query (the specific queries can be seen in the screenshots) I get
a normal concordance or a column of numbers like the ones in the
screenshot. Why should this happen. In principle both queries should be
syntactically correct. Otherwise I would get an error message. Instead
of an error message, I get this kind of result with a column of numbers.

Josep M.