http://webascorpus.org/wacwiki/ 2010-09-06T06:04:42-06:00 http://webascorpus.org/wacwiki/ http://webascorpus.org/wacwiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-07-23T15:16:45-06:00 Bill Fletcher http://webascorpus.org/wacwiki/doku.php?id=wiki:wacorg&rev=1279919805&do=diff Search interface launched for new, self-expanding corpora based on English-language webpages matching user queries. Details of corpus development will appear here later. 23 July 2010: Site restored after the hosting provider summarily cut off service because certain unspecified database limits were exceeded. (Apparently unlimited doesn't actually mean 'unlimited'.) Search web corpus is temporarily disabled, but should return by the end of July. text/html 2010-07-23T15:09:52-06:00 Bill Fletcher http://webascorpus.org/wacwiki/doku.php?id=wiki:wacorg:searchwc&rev=1279919392&do=diff 23 July 2010 * Service taken offline while databases are restructured to meet hosting provider's limits. I hope to have the changes implemented by the end of July. 4 March 2008 * Search interface launched for new, self-expanding corpora based on English-language webpages matching user queries. Details of corpus development will appear here later. text/html 2010-06-28T16:27:07-06:00 Bill Fletcher http://webascorpus.org/wacwiki/doku.php?id=wiki:resources&rev=1277764027&do=diff Web as Corpus Resources APIs APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) allow developers to access online services programmatically, from applications that run on a web server or on a local machine. While they are useful, they are subject to change or elimination. This list includes notes on APIs I have come across and at least looked at. text/html 2010-06-16T10:27:03-06:00 Bill Fletcher http://webascorpus.org/wacwiki/doku.php?id=user_posts:bill_fletcher:sphinx&rev=1276705623&do=diff For several years I have been eying the Sphinx free open-source full-text search system, which combines flexible high-speed search with full integration with MySQL. Unlike Lucene it does not require Java, and it also appears to scale well with billions of records. In the past I was put off by the high learning threshold and the still-tentative nature of the product. By now (release 0.9.9 Dec '09) it is stable and very complete, with more to come. text/html 2010-06-16T09:44:52-06:00 Bill Fletcher http://webascorpus.org/wacwiki/doku.php?id=user_posts:bill_fletcher&rev=1276703092&do=diff Bill Fletcher's Posts * Barebones PHP 5 Code to query Bing Search * Useful PHP 5 snippets for developers * Notes on Sphinx Full-Text search text/html 2010-06-04T10:43:49-06:00 Bill Fletcher http://webascorpus.org/wacwiki/doku.php?id=wiki:wacorg:searchwac&rev=1275669829&do=diff 3 June 2010 * Minor bug fixes and enhancements to Web Concordancer: * Select all and toggle selection of files for inclusion in the download (see older posts) is now supported. * Zipfile names now incorporate the “chunk” number and the formats (HTML / text / both). * Zipfile names can now be specified by the user. By default they are based on the query terms, which can result in very long names for advanced queries. Edit the name on the first concordance page to change the name for …