DCA - Dynamic Corpus Analyzer

1 Introduction

The Dynamic Corpus Analyzer (DCA) is a web application for analysis and visualization of files in Text Corpus Format (TCF). This is the processing format of WebLicht, which can be used to lingusitically annotate texts. After a text corpus is uploaded to DCA, a lot of different analysis and visualization can be applied to the corpus. This includes the token level (token, POS, lemma), pares trees (constituent and dependency) as well as statistical analysis and text laws for the corpus as a whole.

DCA uses two different levels of authentication and authorization (for getting an account, please contact Thomas Zastrow):

Th following documentation explains the individual functions of DCA. In general, you can choose one from the menu in the top. On the left hand, you see some options which are sometimes mandatory to be set and a button for executing the function on the choosen corpus.

After login in to DCA, the following welcome screen welcomes you:

All functionality in DCA is available via the menus in the top. Important: For all functions, it is necessary that at first you choose a corpus from the drop down list on the left before you execute the function. Once you have choosen a corpus, it stays actice until you close the browser:

2 Start

2.1 Corpus Übersicht

The “Corpus Übersicht” shows you which corpora are in the system and which linguistic annotations they contain.

2.2 Management

If you have the rights, you can here upload new corpora in TCF 0.3 format to DCA.

2.3 Editor

The editor is a simple solution for editing the token assigned information of a corpus. You can walk throug the tokens of a corpus, edit token, lemma and POS information and save back the edited information to the system.

2.4 Impressum

3 Anzeige

3.1 Text anzeigen

Here the full text of the choosen corpus is dispalyed. Click “POS laden” on the left and a list with all used POS tags in the corpus appears. Select one or more of them and appearances of them will highlighted in different colors. “Start” and “Ende” allows you to specify the range of tokens which is displayed.

3.2 Sätze anzeigen

View the text of the corpus sentence by sentence.

3.3 Konkordanzen

Here you can show concordances of the corpus. Select a word in “Wort”, set the left and the right context (“Content nach links / rechts”) and how many hits (“Anzahl Treffer”) you would like to get. After excuting the search via “Abschicken”, the table in the right displays the concordances with the highlighted word in the middle. In addition, a table with all the words and their frequencies in the actual concordance is shown below.

3.4 Frequenzen visualisieren

3.5 Wordline

3.6 Wortkreise

4 Statistik

4.1 Allgemeine Kennzahlen

4.2 Übergangswahrscheinlichkeiten

4.3 POS Statistik

4.4 Lemma Statistik

5 Suche

5.1 Wort

5.2 Wortpaar

5.3 POS eines Wortes

5.4 Phrase suchen

6 Syntax

6.1 Grammatik erstellen

6.2 Konstrukt suchen

7 Textgesetze

7.1 Länge-Frequenz

7.2 Type-Token Relationen

8 Parsetrees

8.1 XPath anwenden

9 Semantik

9.1 Semantik Übersicht

10 Impressum

The Dynamic Corpus Analyzer was developed by Thomas Zastrow.