This page is the front page for implementation related issues in TamBiC project:

• Overview - the main 3 components of TamBiC of the search engine.

• Search engine design - describes the structure and functionality of the search engine.

• Corpus database design - describes the structure of the tables used in the corpus database and how to set up those tables.

• SW project structure - describes the directory structure of the project, and how to set up Eclipse with SVN.

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 Overview of the TamBiC system

The TamBiC system consists of 3 parts:

1.  SQL database holding the contents of the two corpora. Features: 

• Provides efficient methods for searches based on string pattern matching
• Provides easy methods for inserting and editing the corpora contents

2.  Administrative web application for developing the database. Features: 

• Web form for making searches on rows (by text code)
• Web form for editing and deleting rows
• Web form for adding new data to the database
• Web form for managing administrative user accounts

3.  Web application for making the searches in corpora. Features:

• Basic searching, where user needs to select corpus and language (English/Finnish) 
• Making a new search within your current search results (i.e. refining results) 
• Versatile search options: 
• • Word matching w/o wildcard (e.g. play, play*, *play, play*, *play*, …)
  • Phrase matching w/o wildcards (e.g. “the one”, “the *ones”, “the * one”, …)
  • Case in/sensitivity: turn On/Off (e.g. cat, Cat, CAT, …)
  • AND, OR and NOT syntax (e.g. cat AND dog, cat NOT dog, cat OR dog, …)
  • Showing more context, which displays the next and previous sentence in the text
  • THEN syntax , which finds sentences where words are in the given order
• Graphical UI, where the results are shown with hit counting and matching words being bolded in the search results to provide an easy verification of the results 
• Having several searches open at the same time, since every results is put in a new tabs.
• Saving results (in a .rtf file) w/o sentence context being saves, as well
• Printing results (from a new .html page) w/o sentence context being printed, as well
• “Help” page, which contains the user manual on how to use the system
• “About TamBiC” page, where user can find more information on e.g. the text sources.

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