Corpus-Viewer

This repository houses a tool which loads any arbitrary corpus and provides an extensive user interface to explore the data.

The user has to provide one single property file for each corpus. This file defines the overall structure of the corpus and how to load the corpus into the tool.
The instructions of how to write that file can be found in the 'Documentation'-page inside of the tool.

The whole tool is built on top of the Django-Framework.
By default the tool uses the pure-Python search engine Whoosh to make each corpus searchable.

Requirements

• Python 3.5+

Installation

Note: If you want to use a virtual environment like virtualenv switch to the virtual environment before executing the following step(s)!

1. Run ./setup.sh

Quickstart

1. Run cd viewer-framework
2. Run python manage.py runserver to start the server (more on how to start a django server)
3. Visit localhost:8000

Supported Features

• Loading of arbitrary corpora
• No need to preprocess the corpus due to custom loading function (scripted in python)
• Integrated loading of corpora stored in a in ldjson- or csv-file
• Load corpora stored in PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite or Oracle databases
• Different, convenient ways to assign tags to your corpus items
• Export the whole or parts of the corpus into a ldjson- or csv-file
• Configurable item view via html or external source
• Create interface plugins to serve your needs
• Switch from the Whoosh search engine to any other search engine

Contributors

• Kristof Komlossy
• Martin Potthast
• Matthias Hagen

Contact

Did you find a bug or do you have questions/requests? Write me a mail: [email protected]