[Corpora-List] plain text extraction from ICE-GB -- found a solution...

[uclegan at ucl.ac.uk]

Dear All,

It seems that Ute has figured out how to save ICE-GB as a plain text file, from
within ICECUP. Just to clarify: you can open the whole corpus by
double-clicking on "ICE-GB(by Text Category)" in the corpus map. The whole
corpus will now open in the right-hand window. To save it, click on "Save" and
choose the "Plain text" option. The file will be saved to c:\icecup3\output (it
may take a while, as the whole corpus is a big file). You can save also any
subset of the corpus in the same way: just double-click on the relevant
subcorpus (eg, "Direct conversations") in the corpus map, and Save, as before.

Hope this helps,

Gerry Nelson


Quoting Ute Römer <ute.roemer at anglistik.uni-hannover.de>:

> Dear Stefan,
>
> > Yes, but if I understand you correctly, this would only save the result
> > of the query and not the whole corpus
>
> Yes, that's right, you just get the one corpus file you've opened in "ICE-GB
> Map" view -- and that's exactly what I need. It's good to know about the
> grep-command though, thanks. Thanks also to Hilde Hasselgård and Sebastian
> Hoffmann whose very quick and helpful replies coincided with my second
> message to the list.
>
> All the best... Ute
>
>
>
> (which would probably suffice for
> > your current purposes) - the grep thing gives you the whole corpus.
> > Best
> > STG
> >
> > Stefan Th. Gries
> > ----------------------------------------
> > IFKI, Southern Denmark University
> > http://people.freenet.de/Stefan_Th_Gries
> > ----------------------------------------
> >
> > Ute Römer wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > I just found out that it is possible to do what I wanted to do by using
> the
> > > "query">"save" option and then check the "plain text" option. Very sorry
> > > about bothering you.
> > >
> > > All the best... Ute
>
>
>