Structure of English: Linguistic Resources - cqp

advanced-querying

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-10-26T20:23:06+00:00

[ Collection: Introduction to CQP ] 3. Advanced querying The topics in this section build on the foundations discussed in Section 1 and Section 2 and thus presuppose that you have read them. Even the simple queries discussed in Section 2 are a powerful tool for linguistic research -- there are many research questions that can be investigated using only the possibilities introduced there. However, many research designs require more complex queries, and even the ones that do not can be carried …

advanced-sampling

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-06-20T11:53:02+00:00

5f. Advanced sampling This section explains how to create samples from concordances using more advanced techniques than those provided by the Open Corpus Workbench. It requires sending your concordance to a small program we provide as part of INLET:

beyond-queries

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-10-26T19:05:10+00:00

[ Collection: Introduction to CQP ] 4. Beyond queries The topics in this section build on the foundations discussed in Section 1, Section 2 and Section 3, and thus presuppose that you have read them. Often, we will export our concordance (once we are satisfied with it) and then work with the data in some external program

cleaning-output

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-06-20T11:53:03+00:00

5d. Tidying up the output The concordances and the output created by the count and group commands in CQP can be saved to text files and viewed using a text editor, but often, you need a more structured format which you can import into spreadsheet programs (like LibreOffice Calc, MS Excel or Apple Numbers) or into statistics programs like R. For this purpose, all three types of output can be converted to csv files using a small program we provide as part of INLET:

collocates

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-06-20T11:53:03+00:00

[ Collection: Introduction to CQP ] 4c. Collocate lists and tables This section introduces a method for creating collocate lists and tables from a concordance. It presupposes that you have read Section 1, Section 2 and Section 3f. Attention: This is not a built-in function of the Corpus Workbench, but an extension in the form of a script (a small program) provided by our workgroup. If you want to work with it outside of our installation, read the instructions at the end of this section.

complex-queries

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-06-20T11:53:03+00:00

[ Collection: Introduction to CQP ] 3c. Complex Queries This section introduces complex queries, i.e., queries for sequences of tokens rather than just a single token. It presupposes that you have read Section 1 and Section 2. Sequences of value-attribute pairs So far, we have only looked at queries involving a single token

concordances

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-06-20T11:53:03+00:00

[ Collection: Introduction to CQP ] 3f. Working with concordances This section looks in more detail at concordances and discusses some useful ways of making them fit your needs. It also discusses how a concordance can be saved to an external file. This section presupposes that you have read

corpus-structure

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-10-26T20:21:30+00:00

[ Collection: Introduction to CQP ] 1. Corpus Structure This section introduces the general structure of corpora and the way that this structure is represented in the .vrt file format used in the Corpus Workbench. This is necessary in order to understand how queries are constructed in the Corpus Query Processor language (CQP).

downloading-files

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-06-20T11:53:03+00:00

5e. Downloading and sharing files created in CQP There are many ways of downloading files created with CQP (such as concordances, frequency lists or collocation tables). You can use the usual ways of uploading and downloading files using the ZEDAT web interface, terminal, filebrowser. Here, we discuss two additional tricks using your ZEDAT web space and Google Spreadsheets.

exercises

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-06-20T11:53:03+00:00

[ Collection: Introduction to CQP ] 6. CQP Exerises Here you will find several exercises to help you apply and practice what you learned about simple and advanced corpus querying in CQP. The pages are sorted by difficulty and every page will also link to a separate page with solutions as well as the section in the Wiki where the different concepts are explained.

expert-tricks

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-12-02T02:07:25+00:00

[ Collection: Introduction to CQP ] 5. Expert Tricks The topics in this section build on the foundations discussed in Section 1, Section 2, Section 3, and Section 4 and thus presuppose that you have read them. If you have read Sections 1 to 4, you know almost everything you need to know in order to access the Corpus Workbench using the CQP language. However, there are a few useful tricks that will make your work even more enjoyable.

extending-queries-alternatives

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-06-20T11:53:03+00:00

[ Collection: Introduction to CQP ] 3b. Extending simple queries: Combinations of attributes and values This section introduces simple queries involving one token with more than one property, It presupposes that you have read Section 1 and Section 2. Recall that in Section 2, we searched for love

extending-queries-combinations

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-12-01T19:42:39+00:00

[ Collection: Introduction to CQP ] [ Introduction to CQP: Section 1 -- Section 2 -- Section 3 -- Section 4 -- Section 5 -- Section 6 ] 3a. Extending simple queries: Alternative attributes and values This section introduces an extension to simple queries in CQP: the possibility to search for more than one thing, It presupposes that you have read

frequency-lists

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-06-20T11:53:03+00:00

[ Collection: Introduction to CQP ] 4a. Frequency lists This section explains how to create frequency lists from a concordance. It presupposes that you have read Section 1, Section 2 and Section 3 (in particular, Section 3c and Section 3g). Simple word counts “My love for you is immeasureable”, sings Rod Stewart, but there are many things we can measure about the word

grouping-data

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-11-28T12:53:22+00:00

[ Collection: Introduction to CQP ] 4b. Grouping This section explains how to create complex frequency lists from a concordance, where the frequencies of one variable are grouped by a second variable. It presupposes that you have read Section 1, Section 2, Section 3c and Section 4a). Grouping by structural features

introduction

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-10-26T20:27:25+00:00

Introduction to CQP Table of Contents 1. Corpus Structure 2. Simple queries: Searching for a single token 3. Advanced querying * 3a. Extending simple queries: Alternative attributes and values * 3b. Extending simple queries: Combinations of attributes and values * 3c. Complex Queries * 3d. Metadata * 3e. Regular expressions (basics) * 3f. Working with concordances * 3g. Sorting and sampling 4. Beyond queries * 4a. Frequency lists * 4b. Grouping data * 4c. Collocate lis…

list-of-coprora

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-05-14T22:52:55+00:00

[ Collection: Introduction to CQP ] 7. Available Corpora Once you've set up your access to CQP on the university server (that is the INLET corpus system), you'll have a selection of different corpora at your disposal. This list will introduce you to some of them that might be interesting to you. If you don't have access to CQP just yet, check out the

metadata

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-06-20T11:53:03+00:00

[ Collection: Introduction to CQP ] 3d. Metadata This section introduces two important ways of working with metadata. It presupposes that you have read Section 1 and Section 2. As explained in Section 1, corpora often contain metadata in the form of xml tags like the following (simplified) example: …

practice-complex-queries-solutions

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-08T14:03:40+00:00

[ Collection: Introduction to CQP ] Formulating Complex Queries – Solutions Exercise 1 [class="ADJ"][hw="snow|rain" & class="SUBST"] (82 matches) [pos="AJ."][hw="snow|rain" & pos="NN."] (63 matches) Exercise 2 [word="going" %c][hw="to"][class="VERB"] (1583 matches) Exercise 3

practice-complex-queries

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-06-20T11:53:03+00:00

[ Collection: Introduction to CQP ] Formulating Complex Queries For some of these exercises, you will have to be familiar with the positional attributes of the BNC, for example the different class-tags or pos-tags. You can look them up in the info-file of the corpus, simply type

practice-working-with-concordances-solutions

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-08T13:21:42+00:00

[ Collection: Introduction to CQP ] Working with Concordances – Solutions Exercise 1 1. [hw="furthermore"]group Last match text_domain social_science 40 natural_science 23 applied_science 13 2. group Last match text_publication_date 1985-1993 82 1975-1984 11 1960-1974 1

practice-working-with-concordances

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-05-14T23:00:13+00:00

[ Collection: Introduction to CQP ] Working with Concordances For the following exercises, use functions beyond querying in CQP, such as sorting, sampling, randomizing and reducing. In addition, some of these exercises with require the use of positional attributes, like class or

regular-expressions-basics

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-06-20T11:53:03+00:00

[ Collection: Introduction to CQP ] 3e. Regular expressions (basics) This section introduces regular expressions — sequences of symbols and characters that can describe classes of strings and shows how they can be used inside the attribute of an attribute-value pair in CQP. It presupposes that you have read Sections

repetition-operators-solutions

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-07-08T13:58:16+00:00

[ Collection: Introduction to CQP ] Querying with Repetition Operators – Solutions Exercise 1: Prefixation [hw="post-.+" & pos="AJ."] (3895 matches in the BNC, 118 matches in the BNC-BABY) Exercise 2: Prefix- and Suffixation [hw="in.+ible"] (250 matches in the BNC-BABY) Exercise 3: Matching different word forms

repetition-operators

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-05-14T22:57:21+00:00

[ Collection: Introduction to CQP ] Querying with Repetition Operators and other Regular Expressions For the following exercises, use repetition operators like *, + and {} and other regular expressions such as [] , (). Like in the previous section, you will also have to be familiar with positional attributes of the BNC. For more information how to use these operators in CQP, please see the Wiki-page on

simple-queries

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-10-26T20:21:58+00:00

[ Collection: Introduction to CQP ] 2. Simple queries: Searching for a single token This section introduces simple queries involving one token. It presupposes that you have read Section 1. As before, we use the British National Corpus (BNC) for the examples. Tokens as attribute-value pairs

sorting-sampling

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-06-20T11:53:03+00:00

[ Collection: Introduction to CQP ] 3g. Sorting and sampling This section explains how to sort a concordance and how to create random samples from a concordance. It presupposes that you have read Section 1 and Section 2. The last subsection introduces more ways to create samples from a concordance, and presupposes that you have read