Intro to CQP/CWB handout

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Links

• NTNU tools
  • SimpleQuery
  • CQPWeb
• Software / background
  • CQP/CWB
  • LCMC Tagset
  • CQP Syntax Guide

Examples / Further info

• CQPWeb
  • Make sure to change to CQP Syntax (not Simple Query)
  • Frequency lists option available from left hand menu of each corpus
    • Two modes, by POS and by word
  • word lookup function (find a particular words type of speech)
  • Query language basics "" is shorthand for [word=""] (e.g. "好" is the same as [word="好"])

    • word= vs. pos=

    • find any verb instance of "出" (& combines two statements)

        [word="出.*"&pos="v"] []* "去" within 3;
      

      or

        [word="出.*"&pos="v"] []{0,3} "去";
      

      the []{0,3} limits the window size while []* means infinitely big as big as you want

  • [word="出..."] can be used to find compound words (the ... represents one character).
    • So, [word="出..."] will result in 出門, 出發 etc.
  • In addition to & for combinations, can also use | to do an or
    • [word="好"&pos="a"][pos="n|v"] will return any hao that is an adjective that is followed by either a noun or a verb