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From: Tam B. <tam...@so...> - 2012-10-19 10:12:02
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Hello All! I've been using Xaira with some success with a lemmatised and tagged corpus of around 1.2 million words for the last couple of months--but I have been largely unable to use the morphological tagging. I have tried two different approaches. I began with each word associated with a single morphological tag which contained many different bits of information (there were, in theory, about 1300 possible tags in this scheme), so that the xml looked like this: <w xml:id="w39" lemma="byrja" ana="sng3eþ">byrjaði</w> When I ran the indexer, it threw up lots of "Task stack too deep, switched off." errors. The resulting corpus was then usable in Xaira, but it tended to crash when I tried to use the tags, and even when it didn't, the length limit on queries meant that this was an infeasible approach (for example, a query to search for any noun had to include over a hundred different tag possibilities, which meant that even these simplest queries were too long to run). I've now split the tags up, so that the xml looks like this: <w xml:id="w39" lemma="byrja" cls="verb" mood="ind" voice="act" gen_pers="3" num="sg" tense="past">byrjaði</w> However, the indexer still throws up thousands of errors, and when the corpus is used in Xaira, the programme crashes if I try to use any of the morphological tags in the Word Query dialogue. Alternatively, if I use the XML Query dialogue and specify a <w> element with the correct attribute, it always returns no results. The corpus works fine if I exclude all the morphological tags when indexing, but including even one tag causes these problems. Does anyone happen to be familiar with these errors and could suggest a solution or a workaround? I'd be extremely grateful for any suggestions! Thanks in advance, Tam Blaxter |
From: <hel...@ii...> - 2011-04-13 00:20:36
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Xaira is not retrieving hits for queries with apostrophes in them. For example "don't go looking for" returns 0 hits but there are at least 2 (KBB 5246 and HGJ 1880). Is it a smart/curly quote issue, or am I doing something else wrong? Thanks Helen Renwick |
From: Helen R. <Hel...@ii...> - 2011-02-04 10:27:12
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I have now tried deleting the version of Xaira that came with my CDs on a PC and have downloaded the most up to date version from Sourceforge. The problem still occurs: a phrase search for "in the way of" crashes Xaira: Windows Task Manager indicates Xaira stops responding in approximately 3 seconds. The same thing happens with "in the way". A phrase search for "in the" works fine. Any help greatly appreciated. Helen Renwick |
From: Helen R. <Hel...@ii...> - 2011-02-02 12:17:25
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I should add that I've now installed BNC XML on a normal desktop PC and I am having the same problem, so I don't actually think it's a Mac/VMFusion problem. A Phrase search on both the laptop and the desktop works for "in the" but not for "in the way" and certainly not for "in the way of". I've previously used BNC World Edition and searches such as this were entirely straightforward. Any advice from anyone very welcome. Helen Renwick |
From: Helen R. <Hel...@ii...> - 2011-02-01 13:23:37
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I'm having trouble running some BNC XML searches using Xaira. I'm using a Macbook Pro with Windows on VMFusion Ware. Xaira is fine with simple searches (up to two words in 'Phrase') but anything more than that causes problems. When I check the Windows Task Manager, the message flicks between 'Running' and 'Not Responding'. CPU usage on Windows while my last search ('in the way of') was underway was 50%. PF usage was 729MB. The virtual machine has 880MB RAM and the disk size is 88GB. Can anyone help me? I obviously need to change some parameter but I have no idea which one. Thanks Helen Renwick |