LexiDB

Build

Required

• Java JDK 1.12+
• Gradle

Build using the following command in the project directroy;

$ gradle build

Deploy

Deploy locally;

$ java -jar build/libs/lexidb-2.0.jar /path/to/app.properties

Test

You can test whether the server is running by making a simple API call in your browser; http://localhost:1189/api/test

Create a corpus

Create a new corpus;

POST /mycorpus/create

{
  "name": "tokens",
  "sets": [
    {
      "name": "tokens",
      "columns": [
        {
          "name": "token"
        }
...
}

insert some files;

POST /mycorpus/myfile.xml/insert

token   pos sem
When	CS	Z5
it	PPH1	Z8
comes	VVZ	A4.1[i651.2.1
to	II	A4.1[i651.2.2
tropical	JJ	M7/B2-[i652.2.1
diseases	NN2	M7/B2-[i652.2.2
,	,	PUNC
future	JJ	T1.1.3
scientific	JJ	Y1
research	NN1	X2.4
...

finally save;

GET /mycorpus/save

Query

A GET request can be made to the endpoint http://localhost:1189/mycorpus/query. The body of the request should be in the form of a JSON query;

POST /mycorpus/query

{
  "query": {
    "tokens": "{\"pos\": \"JJ\"}"
  }
}

This will query the "tokens" table and the "pos" (part-of-speech) column for the value "JJ" and return the results in the form of a "kwic" (keyword in context).