Manatee Features

Client/Server Application

• server (manateesrv) runs on UNIX, Windows 95+/NT
• client (Bonito) -- graphical user interface (GUI, see UNIX + X Window, Windows 95+/NT, Macintosh
• Internet - even a modem connection is sufficient for proper work

Powerful Query Language

• single attribute, i.e.: wordform or respective annotation (lemma, tag)
• regular expressions over attributes (word, lemma, tag)
• Boolean expressions (and, or, not) of attributes
• regular expressions over positions (sequence, omission, alternation, repetition and arbitrary combinations)
• structures (like sentence boundaries): start tag, end tag, whole structure
• dynamic attributes and multivalues behave like regular attributes
• fast query evaluation of complex queries

Easy To Create Concordance Lists

• P/N filter (lines with matching positions in given span will remain in concordance list / will be deleted from conc. list)
• query history
• named queries (list of favorite queries with notes for immediate use)
• templates (substitution of parameters in templates of complex queries)

Collocations

• locate and highlight words in context
• more than 1 collocation (no limit in number)
• collocation can occupy more than 1 position (sequence of words)

Concordance Manipulation

• save conc. list into text file
• print conc. list on printer
• delete selected lines
• reduce -- only given number of random lines remain in conc. list
• simple sort -- sort according to keywords, left or right context
• undo
• named concordances

Concordance Presentation

• selection of displayed positional/structural attributes, values of structures
• positional attributes only for keywords
• extended context
• interactive widening of extended context
• graphical view of occurrences

Generic Sort

• more than one sorting criteria
• duplicity elimination
• sort options (case folding, language dependent criteria, backward)

Frequency Distribution

• unlimited number of grouping levels
• subtotals
• frequencies of words (or values of other pos. attributes) in context

Collocation Candidates

• list of words in given span on given attributes
• MI-score, T-score for each word

Basic Handling Of Parallel (Aligned) Corpora

Language Independence

• any set of tags can be used
• encoding could be selected from a wide range of encodings
• sorting and case folding is performed according to given language and encoding

Easy GUI Localization

• English and Czech version of graphical user interface
• adding new language is only translation of two files (resource [480 lines], menu [80 lines])