I found a few bugs related to Corpus/Database file handling in the Advanced mode. Also, a serious bug was reported, so I fixed them and uploaded the latest beta to the site. If you have downloaded beta 1.8, please visit the site and download the latest beta. The latest beta is also version 1.8, but if you could run and check About CasualConc, it should say Version 1.8 (20101104).
If you still cannot run this version or find another bug, please report it to me. You can email me or post comment on the blog or send message on Twitter.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010
A minor update to CasualConc Beta
I added a few features (some new and some enhanced) to CasualConc Beta. I also enabled an experimental gapped n-gram list feature.
Documentation is not updated, so you might need to figure out how to use some of the features.
General
- Spelling variation feature. You can register spelling variations (i.e. analyze-analyse) and use them in Concord/Cluster/Collocation searches as well as in Word List.
- You can assign different corpus/database file to the left and right tables in Cluster/Word Count in Advanced Corpus Handling Mode.
Concord
- Sorting now has 4th elements.
Cluster
- longer cluster search (up to 8 words)
Word List- Gapped n-gram (3-5 gram)
Concordance Plot
- You can export selected concordance plot as JPEG files (individually) or print them (= export as PDF).
The spelling variation feature is to accommodate word search/word list creation in languages that have spelling variations (i.e. American/British English). Once you create a spelling variation list, you can use information on it when searching a word/creating a word list. There is one problem with this feature. Unless your corpus and spelling variation list are not pos-tagged, CasualConc cannot distinguish the same spelling of different word classes (i.e. analyses [v] vs analyses [n]). A sample list of spelling variations is included in the disk image. You can import it to CasualConc to see how this feature works. You might want to create your own list (there might be some errors in my list and it is far from complete).
For corpus handling, I added a feature to assign different corpus/database file to the left/right tables in Cluster and Word Count. This is available in Advanced Corpus Handling Mode. If you have more than one corpus or database file registered on the table and check more than one corpora or database files, you can select one corpus/database file or All for each of the two tables in Cluster and Word Count. You need to do this in File view.
In Concord, you can select 4th sorting position. I don't know how useful this feature is, but I wanted this from time to time, so I added it. Also related to Concord is Concordance Plot export. Now you can export Concordance Plots. There are two types. One is to export selected plots individually as JPEG files. You can select the ones you want to export on the plots. Another is to print the selected plots. Thanks to OS X's "Save as PDF" feature, you can save the plots as a single PDF file. Now that you can export plots, you might want to change the size of plots, I guess. So I added a feature to change the hight and width of plot boxes. You can set them in Preferences -> Others.
In Cluster, you can create a Cluster list of up to 8 words (= 7 + search word).
In Word List, you can search gapped n-grams (2-5 grams). This feature was already introduced as an experimental feature. I enhanced it a bit and enabled it. I'm thinking about enhancing this feature, but I decided to release it before that hoping to get some feedback (to decide how to enhance this feature).
There might be bugs related to these new features. Any feedback and/or bug report is welcome.
Documentation is not updated, so you might need to figure out how to use some of the features.
General
- Spelling variation feature. You can register spelling variations (i.e. analyze-analyse) and use them in Concord/Cluster/Collocation searches as well as in Word List.
- You can assign different corpus/database file to the left and right tables in Cluster/Word Count in Advanced Corpus Handling Mode.
Concord
- Sorting now has 4th elements.
Cluster
- longer cluster search (up to 8 words)
Word List- Gapped n-gram (3-5 gram)
Concordance Plot
- You can export selected concordance plot as JPEG files (individually) or print them (= export as PDF).
The spelling variation feature is to accommodate word search/word list creation in languages that have spelling variations (i.e. American/British English). Once you create a spelling variation list, you can use information on it when searching a word/creating a word list. There is one problem with this feature. Unless your corpus and spelling variation list are not pos-tagged, CasualConc cannot distinguish the same spelling of different word classes (i.e. analyses [v] vs analyses [n]). A sample list of spelling variations is included in the disk image. You can import it to CasualConc to see how this feature works. You might want to create your own list (there might be some errors in my list and it is far from complete).
For corpus handling, I added a feature to assign different corpus/database file to the left/right tables in Cluster and Word Count. This is available in Advanced Corpus Handling Mode. If you have more than one corpus or database file registered on the table and check more than one corpora or database files, you can select one corpus/database file or All for each of the two tables in Cluster and Word Count. You need to do this in File view.
In Concord, you can select 4th sorting position. I don't know how useful this feature is, but I wanted this from time to time, so I added it. Also related to Concord is Concordance Plot export. Now you can export Concordance Plots. There are two types. One is to export selected plots individually as JPEG files. You can select the ones you want to export on the plots. Another is to print the selected plots. Thanks to OS X's "Save as PDF" feature, you can save the plots as a single PDF file. Now that you can export plots, you might want to change the size of plots, I guess. So I added a feature to change the hight and width of plot boxes. You can set them in Preferences -> Others.
In Cluster, you can create a Cluster list of up to 8 words (= 7 + search word).
In Word List, you can search gapped n-grams (2-5 grams). This feature was already introduced as an experimental feature. I enhanced it a bit and enabled it. I'm thinking about enhancing this feature, but I decided to release it before that hoping to get some feedback (to decide how to enhance this feature).
There might be bugs related to these new features. Any feedback and/or bug report is welcome.
Friday, October 1, 2010
CasualConc bug fix
I found a bug on CasualConc, so I fixed it.
Concord
- The number of files count was incorrect when used with the context word search option ON
Also on CasualConc beta, a little more serious bug was found in the database mode.
General
- Results of Cluster, Collocation, and Word Count were incorrect when the context word search option was ON and a context word(s) was specified in Concord. This happened ONLY in the database mode. There was a bug in creating an SQL query.
If you find any other bugs, please let me know.
Concord
- The number of files count was incorrect when used with the context word search option ON
Also on CasualConc beta, a little more serious bug was found in the database mode.
General
- Results of Cluster, Collocation, and Word Count were incorrect when the context word search option was ON and a context word(s) was specified in Concord. This happened ONLY in the database mode. There was a bug in creating an SQL query.
If you find any other bugs, please let me know.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
CasualConc beta another minor update
I found a bug in the process to add files to an existing database file, so I fixed it and made some minor changes to corpus file handling in advanced mode.
File (in Advanced Corpus Handling mode)
- you can now add files to an existing database file (this feature was broken)
- you can delete multiple files from a corpus/database file
- you can find duplicate files in a corpus/database file -> identify files with the same path
- you have an option to move a database file to Trash when you delete one from the table
The bug I found was in the process of adding files to an existing database file. This worked long time ago and I somehow broke it when I made changes in the process. But since I haven't got any bug report, I guess no one really uses this function.
And when I fixed this, I also made some changes in corpus handling in the advanced corpus handling mode. Now you can select multiple files on the corpus/database content table (lower left). This means you can delete multiple files at one go. Related to this, I added a feature to identify duplicate files in the selected corpus/database file. If CasualConc find duplicate files, the ones added first (older ones) are selected. Once files are selected, you can delete them at once.
Also you can now move a database file to Trash when you remove it from the database list table.
Finally, I added alert messages related to the corpus handling. When a corpus/database file was not selected or files are not added to a table to process, CasualConc simply ignored button clicking. Now, it gives you a message explaining why CasualConc doesn't process your request in the file view (in most of the cases).
As always, if you find any bug, please let me know.
File (in Advanced Corpus Handling mode)
- you can now add files to an existing database file (this feature was broken)
- you can delete multiple files from a corpus/database file
- you can find duplicate files in a corpus/database file -> identify files with the same path
- you have an option to move a database file to Trash when you delete one from the table
The bug I found was in the process of adding files to an existing database file. This worked long time ago and I somehow broke it when I made changes in the process. But since I haven't got any bug report, I guess no one really uses this function.
And when I fixed this, I also made some changes in corpus handling in the advanced corpus handling mode. Now you can select multiple files on the corpus/database content table (lower left). This means you can delete multiple files at one go. Related to this, I added a feature to identify duplicate files in the selected corpus/database file. If CasualConc find duplicate files, the ones added first (older ones) are selected. Once files are selected, you can delete them at once.
Also you can now move a database file to Trash when you remove it from the database list table.
Finally, I added alert messages related to the corpus handling. When a corpus/database file was not selected or files are not added to a table to process, CasualConc simply ignored button clicking. Now, it gives you a message explaining why CasualConc doesn't process your request in the file view (in most of the cases).
As always, if you find any bug, please let me know.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
CasualConc beta minor update
I haven't updated this blog for a long time. Since I last posted here, I made a few changes to CasualConc beta.
- Exporting Concord result as RTF
You can now export Concord results as a RTF document. With this format, you can choose to keep coloring of sort words as well as font style of context words.
- Searching Cluster/Collocation from other tools
Though it was not documented on the site, you could run Concord search from the Cluster, Collocation, and Word Count tables. Now you can search Cluster and Collocation from the Word Count table.
If you are using CasualConc beta or want to try the beta, please go to the CasualConc site and download the latest beta.
I'd appreciate any feedback on the beta.
- Exporting Concord result as RTF
You can now export Concord results as a RTF document. With this format, you can choose to keep coloring of sort words as well as font style of context words.
- Searching Cluster/Collocation from other tools
Though it was not documented on the site, you could run Concord search from the Cluster, Collocation, and Word Count tables. Now you can search Cluster and Collocation from the Word Count table.
If you are using CasualConc beta or want to try the beta, please go to the CasualConc site and download the latest beta.
I'd appreciate any feedback on the beta.
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