XConc Suite is a collection of XML-based tools which are integrated to support the corpus development and annotation.
XML Editor
A fully-functioned XML editor which allows DTD and CSS-based customization of the editing interface.
Concordancer
An interface which accept structural, regular expressions for searching texts for specific patterns. The results will be shown in KWIC (Key Word In Context) format.
Ontology Browser
It allows users to browse ontologies to select a class or a set of classes for searching or valuation purposes. Currently, it supports OWL-encoded ontologies.
Requirements
Eclipse version 3.2.2 -
Java Runtime Environment version 1.6 -
Setting up plug-ins
After installing Eclipse, the XConc Suite can be installed inside Eclipse as follows:
From the main menu, select Help > Install New Software.
Select Add, and enter XConc Suite for Name and http://www.nactem.ac.uk/tsujii/xconc/ for URL, and click OK.
Select the site XConc Suite.
Select the feature XConc Suite, and click Next.
Check to accept the terms in the licence agreement, and click Next. (Please press OK if a warning appears.)
Click Finish.
You may need to restart the eclipse platform to complete the installation.
Updating plug-ins
Close all the perspectives.
From the main menu, select Help > Check for Updates.
Click Next
Check to accept the terms in the licence agreement, and click Next. (Please press OK if a warning appears.)
Click Finish.
You may need to restart the eclipse platform to complete the update.
Using XConc
Please refer to this manual.
For trying XConc Suite, you can use this sample workspace.
version 1.0.20
Fix for initializing document in the tag
version 1.0.19
Fix for ontology view
version 1.0.17, 1.0.18
Fix for selecting IDREFs
version 1.0.16
Fix for exception in removing element
version 1.0.15
Fix for renaming project name (temporary)
version 1.0.14
Bug fix for 1.0.12
version 1.0.13
Bug fix for installation problem
version 1.0.12
Refresh property sheet page after each edit
Draw hover lines last to show them
version 1.0.11
Remove function to make ontology view visible from xconc selector editor
Open without settings support
Support for saving CSS
Disable 'Insert Element' when no element can be inserted
version 1.0.10
Bug fix for 1.0.9
version 1.0.9
Change Save/Load in Search View Result
version 1.0.8
Add about.ini
Stop output carrage return
Stop output return in #PCDATA
version 1.0.7
Add support for IDREFS in CSS
Change default perspective
version 1.0.6
Change to use 'toPortableString()' instead of 'toString()' for IPath
version 1.0.5
remove detached show property view
version 1.0.4
Fix for horizontal bar option
remove error messages
version 1.0.3
Fast OWL reading
version 1.0.2
Minor fix for Eclipse 3.5.1
version 1.0.1
Add horizontal bar option (test)
Add CSS extension for Treebank view (test)
version 1.0.0
First release
XConc Suite is developed by Jin-Dong Kim and Makoto Miwa
See also GENIA Project acknowledgments page