BootCaT front-end tutorial

Welcome to the BootCat front-end tutorial!

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 BootCaT front-end.

The tutorial is based in version 0.4 of the BootCaT front-end.

Welcome screen

This is the welcome screen, where you'll find some basic information about the BootCaT method for creating a web corpus.

Click “Next”.

Basic setup

The following window should appear automatically only the first time you run BootCaT front-end.

If the BootCaT front-end has been installed correctly, you don't have to do anything here. The folder “BootCaT Corpora” has been created for you in your “Documents” folder (or your home directory on Mac/Linux).

Just click “OK” to confirm that you're happy with the default settings, the window will close and you can start building your corpus.

Project definition

Here you have to choose a name for your new corpus. For example, insert the name “dogs” in the box and hit OK.

A new subfolder named “dogs” will be created in the folder that you specified in the previous step. All your corpus data will be stored in this new folder.

Click “Next” to move on to the next step.

Tutorial part 2