The Concordance Tab
On this tab you can run queries against the corpora you selected on the
Corpus tab, to generate a set of concordance lines. Alternatively you can
load a set of concordance lines that you have previously saved.
Once you have a set of concordance lines, the buttons across the top
of the pane present a range of functions that you can use to manipulate the
lines that the query has retrieved. We will look at each button in turn below.
The Display
The status line at the bottom of the pane displays the number
of lines that make up the current working set of concordance lines.
The node word of the query you have just run is
highlighted in red in the center of the pane, with the line numbers indicating
the position of that concordance line within in the current set displayed
on the left hand side of the pane.
You can select a concordance line by clicking on it - it will then be
highlighted in yellow. If you want to select
more than one concordance line press shift and then click for each
subsequent line. Clicking on an already selected line will deselect that line -
no other selected lines will be affected.
To scroll
up or down through the set of concordance lines use the arrow keys. You can
also use the PageUp or PageDown keys to scroll through the
concordance lines a page at a time.
The Actions
- NEW QUERY
- When this pane is empty, ie you have no current set of
concordance lines open, this button will be highlighted to prompt you to
run a new query. When you click it you will be presented with a dialogue box
prompting you to enter a query, for example a node word such as "test". For
full details see the query language section of this
documentation. If you click the downwards arrow at the right hand edge of the
box you will be able to select from a list of the previous queries (if any)
that you have run this session. Enter your query and click ok, and QWICK will
run your query against the corpora selected, and display the results in the
pane.
- GOTO
- Clicking this button will bring up a dialogue box prompting
for a line number that you want to go to. You can enter any valid line number,
for example enter 1 to go to the top of the set of
concordance lines. You will then be taken to that line - ie the line you
select will be displayed at the top of the page.
- SEARCH
- Clicking here will bring up a dialogue box that prompts
you to enter a word to search for. QWICK will search forward from the top
line displayed on the screen to the next line containing the search word.
You can click the Search button in
the search dialog again to find the next relevant line.
- CONTEXT
- This button presents a dialogue box which allows you to view
an extended context for the line you have just selected.
- SAMPLE
- This option allows you to reduce your working set of
concordance lines. The dialogue box shows that you will reduce the number of
lines from the total number of lines available down to a
number of lines that you specify . You can select to reduce them
in one of two ways:
- every Nth sampling will reduce the number of lines by
selecting every Nth line - the value of N will depend on the number of lines
you have elected to keep.
- random sampling will pick a random sample of lines.
- FILTER
- This button allows you to filter the current set of
concordance lines, to only view a subset of them. You specify a search word,
and then elect either to remove all concordance lines that do
contain the search word, or to remove all concordance lines that do
not contain the search word. In this way you can choose to do either
positive or negative filtering. Note: It is advised that you save your
complete set of concordance lines before running a filter. If, having done a
filter, you want to return to your complete original set of concordance lines
you will need either to rerun your query, or to load the set that you saved.
- DELETE
- Clicking this button will delete all concordance lines that
are currently selected. Note: This will include selected lines that
are not currently visible on the screen If you only wish to delete one
line make sure that no other lines are selected by clicking once on an
unselected line - with simple clicks (as opposed to shift-click) only one line
at a time may be selected, so this will deselect all other lines.
When you are satisfied with your set of current concordances you
can click on the
collocation tab to move on to the next stage.
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