KonText interface: Version history

The corpus interface KonText is designed for general interaction with CNC corpora. A comprehensive list of KonText’s available functions can be found in the manual.

KonText is an extended and visually modified version of the original NoSketch Engine application. It is developed by the Institute of the Czech National Corpus (Faculty of Arts, Charles University) and the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University) under the GNU GPL 2 license (with Tomáš Machálek as the main developer). Just as the NoSketch Engine, KonText uses Manatee as its backend.

The version history overview below contains only the most signicant changes as seen from the end-user perspective. A complete list of all changes and bug fixes can be found on KonText's GitHub page which also hosts a complete source code repository.

Publication date: 11. 4. 2017

• concordance detail rendered as a dialogue with clear indication of speaker turns and overlaps for spoken corpora where audio can be played back by clicking the “speaker” icon
• selection of documents for subcorpora also according to user-defined text type ratios (“Custom text type proportions” button)
• working corpus can now be changed without losing other information from the current query form
• individual query processing steps within the breadcrumb navigation can be edited allowing the user to change the parameters of previous operations
• manually grouped concordance lines are now distinguished by colours
• web page titles contain query information (for use in bookmarks and better browser history navigation)

Publication date: 26. 9. 2016

• added support for displaying of syntactic structures
• asynchronous building of a subcorpus; in case of parallel corpora, alignments availability can be involved
• for attributes with long list of values, a text input auto-complete function has been added for easier subcorpus creation
• additional positional attributes can accessed via mouse-over keeping the main text clean
• navigation between concordance pages is now performed without whole page reload
• frequency distribution and collocation results are now cached on server for faster pagination
• user-defined numeric concordance line labels can be now renamed/removed
• added support for displaying line numbers within concordance

Publication date: 8. 3. 2016

• concordance lines can have user-defined numeric labels attached for manual grouping/categorization
• i.p.m. calculation for ad-hoc subcorpora (on demand)
• in specific cases, the previous version was calculating i.p.m. from the whole corpus which could have been confusing
• a subcorpus can be created based on conditions containing different structures (např. <speaker sex=“male” /> a <session id=“foo.+” />)
• added a breadcrumb navigation depicting different steps a query is composed of

Publication date: 5. 10. 2015

• a new widget for search and selection of corpora
• rewritten “View” menu functions
• general improvement in user interface usability (e.g. adding of aligned corpora)