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 This short and simple guide assumes no prior knowledge of the tool, and will walk you through the process of creating your own web corpus using the [[http://bootcat.sslmit.unibo.it/?section=frontend|BootCaT front-end]]. This short and simple guide assumes no prior knowledge of the tool, and will walk you through the process of creating your own web corpus using the [[http://bootcat.sslmit.unibo.it/?section=frontend|BootCaT front-end]].
  
-**The tutorial is based on version 0.51 of the BootCaT front-end.**+**The tutorial is based on version 0.of the BootCaT front-end** 
 ==== Welcome screen ==== ==== Welcome screen ====
  
 This is the welcome screen, where you'll find some basic information about the BootCaT method for creating a web corpus. This is the welcome screen, where you'll find some basic information about the BootCaT method for creating a web corpus.
  
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 Click "Next". Click "Next".
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 ==== Project definition ==== ==== Project definition ====
  
-Here you have to choose a name and a language for your new corpus. For example, insert the name "dogs" in the box, select "English" from the list and  click "Next" to move on to the next step.+Here you have to choose a name for your new corpus. For example, insert the name "dogs" in the box. You can also choose a language/country combinationif you select "Unspecified" the language will be automatically guessed by the system based on the seeds you'll provide in the next step. 
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 +For now let's not specify a language, choose "Unspecified" from the drop-down list and click "Next" to move on to the next step.
  
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-:!: A note about languages: in this list you'll find only the languages officially supported by the Yahoo **API** (please note the "API" part); this means that even if a language is supported by the Yahoo search engine, it may not necessarily be supported by the API. More information [[http://search.cpan.org/~jfriedl/Yahoo-Search-1.10.13/lib/Yahoo/Search.pm|here]]. Also, the BootCaT toolkit doesn't support multibyte character encoding yet (i.e. Chinese, Japanese, Korean etc. are *not* supported).+:!: A note about languages: in this list you'll find only the "Markets" officially supported by the Bing **API** (please note the "API" part); this means that even if a language is supported by the Bing search engine, it may not necessarily be supported by the API. Also, BootCaT doesn't support multibyte character encoding yet (for instance, Chinese, Japanese and most Russian pages are *not* supported).
  
-[[tutorials:basic_2|Tutorial part 2]]+[[tutorials:basic_2|{{ :buttons:next.png|Next page}}]]