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-====== Carcass Tutorial ======+====== Carcass Basic Tutorial ======
  
-Welcome to the Carcass tutorial! +(by [[http://sslmit.unibo.it/~eros/|Eros Zanchetta]])
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-This short guide assumes no prior knowledge of the tool, and will walk you through the process of connecting to a remote server and submitting your first query.+
  
 **This tutorial is based on Carcass version 0.44** **This tutorial is based on Carcass version 0.44**
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 +Welcome to the Carcass Basic tutorial!
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 +==== Introduction ====
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 +This tutorial assumes no prior knowledge of the tool, and will walk you through the process of connecting to a remote server, submitting your first query and browsing concordance lines.
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 +Carcass is a corpus query tool. It is a [[wp>Client_(computing)|client]] application, which means it needs a working Internet connection to log into a [[wp>Server_(computing)|server]]. For now, the only corpora you can use with Carcass are those hosted on the server.
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 +If you're a glass half empty kind of person you'll think "Shoot, I **cannot** use my own corpora!". If, on the other hand, you're a glass half full kind of person, you'll probably say "Cool, I don't **need** to provide the corpora, there are a bunch of 'em already available and I don't even have to do anything to set them up!"
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 +However you choose to look at it, at the moment it is not possible for regular users to add corpora to the system.
  
 ==== Connection to the server ==== ==== Connection to the server ====
  
-Immediately after starting the program a dialog window will appear, requesting the parameters for the connections to the server.+Immediately after starting the program, a dialog window will appear, requesting the parameters for the connection to the server.
  
 You don't need to do anything here, just accept the default values by clicking on the "OK" button. You don't need to do anything here, just accept the default values by clicking on the "OK" button.
  
-{{ :sarcophagus:carcass:tutorials:basic:010_connection_dialog.png }}+{{ :sarcophagus:carcass:tutorials:basic:010_connection_dialog.png?nolink }}
  
  
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 After a few moments the main window of Carcass will appear, on the left you'll see a list of all available corpora, grouped by language. After a few moments the main window of Carcass will appear, on the left you'll see a list of all available corpora, grouped by language.
  
-{{ :sarcophagus:carcass:tutorials:basic:020_available_corpora.png?1000 |}}+{{ :sarcophagus:carcass:tutorials:basic:020_available_corpora.png?950&nolink |}}
  
 Click on "English" to display all available English corpora. Click on "English" to display all available English corpora.
  
-{{ :sarcophagus:carcass:tutorials:basic:030_select_corpus.png?1000 |}}+{{ :sarcophagus:carcass:tutorials:basic:030_select_corpus.png?950&nolink |}} 
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 Click on "UkWaC 1" to select the UkWaC corpus (more information on this corpus are available on [[http://wacky.sslmit.unibo.it|this page]]). Click on "UkWaC 1" to select the UkWaC corpus (more information on this corpus are available on [[http://wacky.sslmit.unibo.it|this page]]).
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 As soon as you select the corpus, the query editors will appear: As soon as you select the corpus, the query editors will appear:
  
-{{ :sarcophagus:carcass:tutorials:basic:040_query_editors.png?1000 |}}+{{ :sarcophagus:carcass:tutorials:basic:040_query_editors.png?950&nolink |}}
  
-As you can see from the picture above, you can choose between "Simple", "Smart" and "Expert" query editor.+\\
  
 +As you can see from the picture above, you can choose between **Simple**, **Smart** and **Expert** query editor.
 ==== Submitting a query ==== ==== Submitting a query ====
  
-For now let's just stick to the __Simple__ editor.+For now let's just stick to the **Simple** editor (the **Smart** and **Expert** editors are covered in the [[sarcophagus:carcass:tutorials:advanced_1|advanced tutorial]]).
  
 Type the following phrase in the box and click on //Submit//: Type the following phrase in the box and click on //Submit//:
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 </file> </file>
  
-{{ :sarcophagus:carcass:tutorials:basic:050_first_query.png?1000 }}+{{ :sarcophagus:carcass:tutorials:basic:050_first_query.png?950&nolink }} 
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 +In the [[sarcophagus:carcass:tutorials:basic_2|next part]] of the tutorial you will see how to browse the results of your query.
  
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