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Abundantia Verborum

Table of contents

1. Introduction

  1. The field and its problems: computer-aided research
  2. The goal: support of graphical analysis in an integrated environment
  3. The method: a practically oriented project in breadth
  4. The product: the program and the text, and who they are for

2. Getting started

  1. What is Abundantia Verborum ?
  2. Installing and running the program
  3. Documentation and help

3. Tutorial

  1. Getting the data
    1. Using queries
    2. A first query
    3. Queries with Boolean operators
    4. Queries with wildcards
    5. Virtual corpora
    6. Query settings
  2. Classifying the data
    1. Using labels
    2. Adding labels via queries
    3. Adding labels via filters
    4. Adding labels via zooming
    5. Manually adding labels
    6. Label taxonomies
  3. Displaying statistics
    1. Using diagrams
    2. Venn, Hasse and Schematic diagrams
    3. The display threshold
    4. Diagrams and implied labels
    5. Filtered diagrams
    6. Zooming in on diagram parts

4. Virtual corpora and corpus linguistics

  1. Corpus linguistics
    1. The broader field
    2. Corpus formats in the past, the future and the present
    3. Search strategies and existing software
  2. Virtual corpora
    1. Virtual corpus views
    2. The corpus preparation tool
    3. Users and encapsulation
  3. The Abundantia Verborum query language
    1. A typed query language
    2. Indexed search versus direct search
    3. Limited versus unlimited access
  4. Summary

5. Workshops and cognitive linguistics

  1. Cognitive linguistics
    1. The broader field
    2. Formal approaches and cognitive linguistics
    3. Representational formats in cognitive linguistics
    4. The case study "vers"
  2. Workshops
    1. The need for the workshop layer
    2. The labels mechanism as a formal approach
    3. Graphs as representational formats
    4. Possible extensions
  3. Summary

6. Conclusions

Appendices

  1. Glossary of computer terminology
  2. Example case studies
  3. Exercises
  4. Frequently asked questions
  5. Bibliographical references
  6. Index
  7. Ongoing work