COSMAS I (Project completed March 2003)
Corpus Search, Management and Analysis System
Project Management: Cyril Belica
The COSMAS I project pursued the idea of fostering a methodologically sound (in terms of reliability, validity and generability) approach in corpus-based linguistic explorations. Since 1991 (until 1993 in collaboration with Makrolog GmbH, Wiesbaden), a number of fundamental corpus linguistic assumptions and underlying principles have been incorporated in a software system of the same name: COSMAS I - the Corpus Search, Management and Analysis System. ( The Overall Corpus Linguistic Concept of the COSMAS Platform ). In 1993, a follow-up project proposal has been worked out and was incorporated into an international collaborative project. Thanks to external funding provided by the EU-project MECOLB (MLAP93-21), the implementation of the extended COSMAS concept was started under the name of COSMAS II in 1994. A first prototype of COSMAS II has been installed at the Institut for Erhvervsforskning in Kolding, Denmark, and at LOGOS, a company in Mt. Arlington, N.J. in the US in mid-1995.
The COSMAS I software system has been in use well beyond the release of COSMAS II in March 2003. The COSMAS I research project ended on March 7, 2003. After that, two projects took over specific tasks as follows:
- Methods of Corpus Analysis and Corpus Mining pursues the basic research in corpus linguistics
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Implementation tasks and the corpus research service are carried out by COSMAS II
- COSMAS-I-Review
- The Overall Corpus Linguistic Concept of the COSMAS Platform: premises, principles, approaches and solution strategies
- COSMAS I user statistics
- Main features of COSMAS I (version R.2.9-1):
- Virtual corpus composition
- Queries (general explanations)
- Lemmatization programme
- Morphosyntactic annotations
- Presentation of results
- Sorting options
- Collocation analysis and collocation clustering
- Chronological sorting of research results
- Menus at a glance
- Screen views
- User Manual for COSMAS I full version