README for DiaColloDB ABSTRACT DiaColloDB - diachronic collocation database REQUIREMENTS ddc-perl Perl module for DDC client connections. Available from https://sourceforge.net/projects/ddc-concordance/files/ddc-perl/ ddc-perl-xs XS wrappers for DDC query parsing. Available from https://sourceforge.net/projects/ddc-concordance/files/ddc-perl-xs/ File::Path File::Map JSON IPC::Run (a corpus to index or an existing index to query) DESCRIPTION The DiaColloDB package provides a set of object-oriented Perl modules for constructing and querying native diachronic collocation indices with optional inclusion of a DDC server back-end for fine-grained queries. SEE ALSO * http://kaskade.dwds.de/~moocow/dta/diacollo/ contains a live web demo of a DiaCollo index on the *Deutsches Textarchiv* corpus, including a user-oriented help page. INSTALLATION Issue the following commands to the shell: bash$ cd DiaColloDB-0.01 # (or wherever you unpacked this distribution) bash$ perl Makefile.PL # check requirements, etc. bash$ make # build the module bash$ make test # (optional): test module before installing bash$ make install # install the module on your system AUTHOR Bryan Jurish