RNC News

The search interface of the Main corpus has been significantly updated. The RNC team is committed to making the corpus search meet the modern standards. We take into account the users’ feedback and usability parameters.

For those users who are just getting acquainted with the new interface or with the corpus itself, the start page has a new functionality named "Feature Overview". By entering a word or phrase, the user gets acquainted with the search queries and results available in the RNC. They learn about possible errors while building a query and can navigate directly to the search. 

The interface of the Main corpus has undergone the following changes:

Within the lemma and tags search form of the Main corpus, the query constructor blocks that specify the features of separate Words are now situated from left to right, rather than from top to bottom. This allows the user to add as many Words as they want. For each Word only the features the user needs for their query can be specified. The set of features available for query within the main corpus now has a separate "word form" field that allows for specifying exact tokens.

While the features are specified a search formula appears at the top of the pop-up window that combines the specified values. While specifying the text attributes, feature lists now automatically take into account the changes in text annotation.

Subcorpora can now be customized both before and after the query, and instead of pop-ups with multiple features for fiction and nonfiction texts, more compact lists have been designed.

Both query and subcorpus parameters are automatically saved and can be edited at any time. 

The search results page displays all the query parameters and subcorpus parameters (if the latter are specified). All the settings and sorting method choices are now displayed at the top of the page and saved in the user's browser. 

This list of changes is far from complete. You can read more about the changes in the user manual.

The internal structure of the system has also changed significantly. The main corpus has been moved to a new corpus platform, developed within the framework of the grant 075-15-2020-793. The corpus platform, the corpus configuration, and the user interface are now separate parts of the RNC that are nevertheless linked via an API. 

A gradual migration of the remaining corpora to the new interface and platform is under way.
Feel free to use the new version of the site and report any bugs you find.