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BootCaT front-end tutorial
(by Eros Zanchetta and Federico Gaspari)
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 on version 0.51 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”.
when you run BootCaT front-end for the first time a new folder named “BootCaT Corpora” is created in your home folder (or your “My documents” folder if you're on Windows). You can see all your corpora by clicking on “My corpora” in the File menu.
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.
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 here. Also, the BootCaT toolkit doesn't support multibyte character encoding yet (i.e. Chinese, Japanese, Korean etc. are *not* supported).