The Open Corpus Workbench development team and community
The team
Lead developers:
- Stephanie Evert - CWB Core, CWB/Perl, Ziggurat
- Andrew Hardie - CWB Core, CQPweb, Ziggurat
Original development:
- Corpus Workbench was initially developed by Oliver Christ at the IMS (University of Stuttgart)
- ... with some contributions by Bruno M. Schulze.
Other contributors
The team would like to acknowledge contributions from the following people:
- Timm Weber (substantial work on the CWB Core packaging processes)
- Andressa Gomide, Ellen Roberts, Prihantoro, Maggie Mi and Isolde van Dorst (contributions to/assistance with CQPweb extensions and extras)
- Others who we have unforgivably forgotten at the moment.
The community
Like all open-source software projects, the CWB team is supported by a community - small by the standards of many projects but pretty substantial by the standards of linguistic analysis software!
Bug reporters, developers of related software, CQPweb server maintainers and users with an interest in development communicate via the CWB mailing list. Anyone can read the list, but only members can post (due to the usual spam reasons). Traffic is not usually heavy enough to become annoying (in our opinion), and the comunity is friendly and helpful.
To join, or to browse the list archives, head over to the CWB mailing list page.
You can use the list to ask questions or report problems with the CWB. This includes asking for help with installing and compiling; the best way to run particular analyses in CQP; management of CQPweb servers; and other general usage issues.
Other locations of community interest:
- Our project page at sourceforge.net
- The CWB YouTube channel - oriented primarily towards beginner-friendly tutorials for the web-based interfaces, but also some conference presentations.
Need to contact us?
- The CWB email list is probably your best bet.
- Or maybe you could try our individual main web presences: S.E.'s is here; A.H.'s is here.