How to open CORPRO in MacOS 如何在Mac開啟 CORPRO 庫博中文獨立語料庫分析工具

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Introduction to CORPRO

corpro interface
Interface of the software – CORPRO

Are you looking for a handy tool to analyze Chinese language texts? Let’s try CORPRO! It is a Chinese corpus-based text mining software. Don’t worry if you’re not familiar with programming – this software is designed to be user-friendly and accessible to everyone (without programming skills) to conduct textual-mining independently.

CORPRO allows you to incorporate your own compiled corpus and set up customized analysis conditions. You can define your own dictionaries, stop words and words-grouping, etc. With CORPRO, you can perform various corpus analysis functions with ease. These include examining term frequencies, collocations, keywords in corpus and concordance, all with related statistics.

「庫博中文語料庫分析工具」(CORPRO) 是以語料庫語言學為基礎的電腦輔助文本分析軟體工具,功能包括詞彙編輯(包括自建詞典停用詞同類詞)、詞頻統計詞彙之間的搭配關係文本語料庫比較之正負顯著詞彙關鍵詞索引
「庫博」設計提供人文研究可以個別設定研究所需之斷詞、類目建構、語助詞篩選等功能
庫博介面設計有利於沒有電腦程式語言能力之人文社會研究者單獨操作,使研究者便捷發掘文本語料有趣的特徵,並反覆試驗文本語料。目的在於提供人文學者檢視文本語料時與本身學科領域知識對話的機會。


玩庫博:人文社會學者的中文文本探勘工具
Playing with CORPRO: a Chinese Text-mining Tool for Humanities Scholars
http://workshop2019.ncl.edu.tw/assets/pdf/Ho_chia_Chueh_Abstract.pdf

闕河嘉, 國立臺灣大學生物產業傳播暨發展學系副教授
Ho-chia Chueh, Associate Professor,
Department of Bio-Industry Communication and Development
National Taiwan University

We highly recommend you watching this video as it provides detailed demonstration that will give you a comprehensive understanding of the functions offered by CORPRO.

https://youtu.be/K6CfxFmATq4
本錄影為「庫博中文語料庫分析工具」 (CORPRO) 的開發者、國立台灣大學生物產業傳播暨發展學系闕河嘉副教授主講的第三部份。
此節示範以張愛玲版本之「老人與海」譯本,介紹庫博介面的功能。
工作坊主辦: 香港中文大學圖書館與翻譯系翻譯科技研究中心

Open CORPRO in Windows

Open the CORPRO software in Windows is straightforward:

  1. Download the software here: http://nlp.cse.ntou.edu.tw/CORPRO/
  2. Unzip the file and double click “CORPRO.exe” to open the software.
Homepage of CORPRO website
http://nlp.cse.ntou.edu.tw/CORPRO/

Open CORPRO in Mac/Linux

For Mac/Linux, simply double click “CORPRO” to open the software. It may take a few seconds to launch the software.

CORPRO files in mac

If it does not work, you may try the following steps*:

  1. Download the software here: http://nlp.cse.ntou.edu.tw/CORPRO/
  2. Open the terminal in Mac/Linux.
terminal in mac

3. Change Directory: In the terminal, use the cd command to navigate to the folder where the CORPRO software is located.

cd folderpath

4. Set Permissions: To ensure the software is executable, enter the following command in the Terminal window and press Enter. This command grants the necessary permissions to run the software.

chmod +x CORPRO

5. Run the Software: Finally, execute the software by typing the following command in the Terminal window and pressing Enter. This command launches the software.

./CORPRO

*The above method was tested under macOS Monterey environment.

 

– By Holly Chan, Library

October 18, 2023