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Using the Corpógrafo

Belinda Maia & Luís Sarmento

PoloFLUP

LINGUATECA

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First steps

• Get a username and password

• You will receive one automatically

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Working with the Corpógrafo

• Corpógrafo is a suite of integrated tools for INDIVIDUAL or GROUP research

• All research done ONLINE• Each username/password = separate space on

our server• At present > anyone can work with it using 10

MB space for FREE• BUT - you get an empty space + tools + tutorial!

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Help Files

• Introdução à utilização do Corpógrafo - um pequeno tutorial A tutorial – to be translated into English – describing the whole process of terminiology research using the Corpógrafo. Available in PDF.

• Corpógrafo Roadmap In English and Portuguese – a panoramic view of the Corpógrafo and how it works. Available in PDF.

• The Corpógrafo in Easy Stages In English and Portuguese – User’s guide to the Corpógrafo and FAQ. Available in PDF.

• Also Note > on entry page there is a Glossary of terms and instructions PT > EN

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File Manager

Area where each individual or group can:– upload texts to space on server– convert various text formats to .txt– ‘clean’ them of unnecessary material– check tokenization and sentence divisions– register full information on source, domain

and text type– group – and re-group - texts into corpora

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File Manager

• 1. Files• >List Files on Server• >Add Files• >Add Files from URL (Experimental!)

2. Corpora • > List Corpora

> Compile New Corpus

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EXTEX

• Tool for converting file formats to .txt at:

• http://poloclup.linguateca.pt/ferramentas

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General corpus analysis

Corpora analysis area:• Concordancing tools for regular

expressions – at sentence level– KWIC concordancing– Collocations

• N-gram tool– Case-sensitive– Alphabetical or frequency ordering

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Corpora + TDB

• Choose corpus

• Choose related TDB

= All terms, examples, definitions extracted from corpus (semi) automatically transferred to TDB

= All metadata on texts in corpus can be automatically transferred to TDB

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Term extraction

• N-grams– Unfiltered– Filtered with restrictions on term in

PT,EN,FR,IT,ES,DE– Filtered with restrictions on term and context

in PT,EN,FR,IT,ES,DE– Singular + plural terms can be combined– Existing terms in TDB need not appear

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Term selection from n/grams

• Consultation of list of n-grams

• Check term status of each n-gram via underlying concordances

• Check sources

• Send to TDB

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Search for definition candidates

• Already possible via TDB

• Under development

• Research area for Mestrado dissertations and bolseiros

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TDB - Terminology database

Databases are designed to be multilingual– Terms listed alphabetically + language tag– General data– Morphological data– Source metadata: Authors, texts etc– Definitions + search for candidates– Translation equivalents– Semantic relations

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Future developments – general policy

• General testing and improvement

• Development of new ideas or functions – using isomorphic relationships between researchers’ needs and our possibilities

• Coordination of individual corpus projects into bigger projects, when possible or necessary