The CWB/Perl API and tools

CWB/Perl – modules – install – read more

The CWB/Perl API is a complete, officially supported API for the IMS Open Corpus Workbench, which can be installed from CPAN or downloaded here.

All CWB users are encouraged to install the CWB/Perl packages, because they include several useful command-line scripts (cwb-make, cwb-regedit) and are required by various Web GUIs (including BNCweb and the Europarl GUI).

However, CWB/Perl is not supported on Windows.

CWB/Perl packages and modules available

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The packages/modules included in CWB/Perl are:

• CWB - basic package, includes these additional modules:
  • CWB::CEQL - CEQL parser
  • CWB::CQP - interface to a child CQP process
  • CWB::Encoder - tools for encoding CWB corpora
• CWB::CL - Perl language bindings for the low-level C API of the Corpus Library
• CWB::CQI - client/server libraries for the CQi, includes these modules:
  • CWB::CQI::Client - CQi client (reference implementation)
  • CWB::CQI::IOClient - alternative CQi client
  • CWB::CQI::Server - provides a CQi server
• CWB::Web - basic Web interface for running queries on CWB servers

The latter three require the basic CWB package, but there are no interdependencis among them.

How to install

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• Installation instructions are available here
• Information on accessing the modules in the repository is here

Read more

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To learn more about CWB/Perl, see:

• The explanation of its advantages in the Corpus Encoding Manual
• https://metacpan.org/dist/CWB - official page for the Perl package on CPAN. The packages' internal documentation can be browsed here.