JBootCat - v.0.2 - README

Andrew Roberts (14-Aug-2006)
dev [at] andy-roberts [dot] net

http://www.andy-roberts.net/software/jbootcat/

Overview
========

Marco Baroni et al* released the Bootcat tool-chain as a method of acquiring
specialised corpora from the Internet. Bootcat is a combination of Perl 
scripts and Unix text processing utilities.

JBootCat aims to fully implement the Bootcat tool-chain within a user-friendly
GUI application. As it is implemented in Java it is extremely portable and
can be run on any OS on which the Java Runtime is installed.

* BootCat references:

M. Baroni and S. Bernardini. 2004. BootCaT: Bootstrapping corpora and terms
 from the web. Proceedings of LREC 2004, Lisbon: ELDA. 1313-1316.
 http://sslmit.unibo.it/~baroni/publications/lrec2004/bootcat_lrec_2004.pdf

M. Baroni, A. Kilgarriff, J. Pomikalek and P. Rychly. 2006. WebBootCaT: Instant
 domain-specific corpora to support human translators. Proceedings of EAMT-2006
 Poster Session. 247-252.
 http://corpora.fi.muni.cz/bootcat/publications/webbootcat_eamt2006.pdf

Features
========

JBootCat is currently in very early stages and only contains basic 
functionality. That said, it's still adequate if your goal is to create
a new corpus from the Internet from a set of seed terms (in typical Bootcat 
fashion).

Installation
============

JBootCat doesn't come with an installer (yet!).  

JBootCat is distributed as a Zip file. 

Download from:

http://www.andy-roberts.net/software/jbootcat/releases/0.2/jbootcat-0.2.zip

To uncompress the file, there are many utilities. On Windows, a popular utility
is WinZip. On most platforms, there are command-line tools, such as 'unzip'
that can also be used.

It contains the following:

./jbootcat-0.2/README.txt	(you're reading this!)
./jbootcat-0.2/JBootCat.jar	(Java classes)
./jbootcat-0.2/jbootcat.exe	(Windows executable to launch the Java application)
./jbootcat-0.2/lib/googleapi.jar	(Library for communicating with Google)
./jbootcat-0.2/lib/jtidy-r8-SNAPSHOT.jar	(Library for processing HTML)
./jbootcat-0.2/lib/jTokeniser-1.2.1.jar	(Tokenisation library)
./jbootcat-0.2/lib/swing-layout-1.0.jar	(Library for building GUI)
./jbootcat-0.2/lib/Wizard.jar	(Generic "Wizard" GUI framework)
./jbootcat-0.2/lib/yahoo_search-1.1.0.jar	(Library for communicating with Yahoo! Not yet used.)


Important note:
In order to use jbootcat, you need to have the Java Runtime Environment
installed. It requires Java 5.0 or above.

To obtain Java (or update to the latest version) goto http://www.java.com and
it will automatically detect the version that you need to download and install.


Running
=======

* Cross-platform

  At command-line, type:

    java -jar JBootCat.jar

* Microsoft Windows
 
  1. Double-click jbootcat.exe
  2. Double-click JBootCat.jar

Any of the above methods will cause the GUI to load. Enjoy!


Contact
=======

If you wish to contact the developer about JBootCat to suggest future
features, bugs or anything that you want, please email me at:

dev [at] andy-roberts [dot] net

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