CWB - The IMS Open Corpus WorkBench

The IMS Open Corpus Workbench is a collection of tools for managing and querying large text corpora (100 M words and more) with linguistic annotations. Its central component is the flexible and efficient query processor CQP. Originally developed at the IMS Stuttgart, it has been released as open-source software under the GPL license in 2007 and is now hosted on SourceForge.

Information and resources for users of CQP and the Corpus Workbench.

Top pages: Indexing Howto

• compiling the CWB source code
• installing binary releases
• installing APIs and add-on packages
• installing CQPweb and other GUI frontends

Information and resources for developers