Summary

1. TXM desktop software user documentation (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux)
   1. TXM 0.8 Manual
   2. TXM 0.7 Manual
2. TXM portal software user documentation
3. TXM portal software administrator documentation
4. Documentation for TXM Platform Developers
5. TXM Platform Components
6. Textometry: Corpus Encoding

TXM desktop software user documentation (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux)

Video tutorial

• Videocast of TXM 0.6 initiation Workshop taught by Bénédicte Pincemin on September 27th 2012 (in French) [Don’t hesitate to adjust Youtube video quality settings, use the 720p HD resolution if your web connexion can support it]

Documentation from community

• Explore, play, analyse your corpus with TXM: A short introduction of TXM by José Calvo and Silvia Gutiérrez, 17. April 2014.
• in German: TXM Kurzreferenz, C. Schoech, 9. November 2014.

TXM Manual

TXM 0.8 Manual

• to read online (in French, being drafted) (HTML)

TXM 0.7 Manual

• to print (PDF), reference version (in French) (PDF)
• to read online (in French) (HTML)

Very fast introduction to TXM key concepts in 90 minutes

• PDF

Leaflet presenting TXM

• PDF

Tutorials

• Import of Europresse articles in XML/w+CSV to TXM
• R tutorial
• TreeTagger installation in TXM (obsolete since TXM 0.8.0, the installation being done by adding an extension)
• Other tutorials are available on the wiki page of txm-users list

FAQ

• Frequently Asked Questions on the txm-users wiki (in French)

Participate

• report bugs
• ask for new features

Additional User Documentation

• Speech transcription Guidelines with Transcriber for TXM import and analysis -Weblex Manual: : Weblex is a textometry software developed in Lyon before TXM; it is no longer online, but its documentation can still be instructive, for example Chapter 9 “CQP Expressions Reference Manual”.

Diagnostic

• TXM diagnostics by command line

TXM portal software user documentation

BFM portal tutorial (Medieval French Database) is the main user-documentation currently available for the portal version of TXM (in French). It is available throught the BFM portal.

Furthermore, you might be interested in:

• Known bugs of current version
• Feature requests and possible evolutions

TXM portal software administrator documentation

• TXM portal software installation
• TXM portal administration manual
• Diagnostics and restart of a TXM portal TXM
• Update of the software of a TXM portal
• List of public TXM portals

Documentation for TXM Platform Developers

The TXM developers’s wiki is the reference site for the development of the TXM platform. Contact us to participate.

We find in particular:

• how to install the development environment (in French)
  • automatic translation in English
  • automatic translation in Russian
  • automatic translation in German
• how to get the sources
• the Javadoc
• the R textometry package documentation
• development tutorials concerning the Toolbox and the desktop version, the architecture of import modules, the GUI translation procedure, the procedure for building setups for a release, etc.
• the roadmap of the successive versions of TXM
• some design elements of future components
• the list of developers participating in the project
• a list of key open source technologies that are or can be used in TXM
• links to reference documents of TXM components

The old software release site on Sourceforge also has a documentation download section.

TXM Platform Components

• CQP Search Engine
  • CQP Manual (1999)
  • CQP Tutorial (2019)
  • CQP Corpus Administrator’s Manual (1994)
  • Corpus Encoding Tutorial (2002)
  • Open CWB project documentation
  • CQI Tutorial (2000)
• R Statistics Engine
  • An Introduction to R
  • Introduction à R et au tidyverse (in French)
  • Richard A. Becker, John M. Chambers, Allan R. Wilks (1988) The New S Language, A programming environment for data analysis and graphics, Pacific Grove, Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole
  • Brian S. Everitt & Torsten Hothorn (2006) A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R, Boca Raton, Chapman & Hall/CRC
  • Pierre-André Cornillon, Arnaud Guyader, François Husson, Nicolas Jégou, Julie Josse, Maela Kloareg, Éric Matzner-Løber, Laurent Rouvière (2008), Statistiques avec R, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes
  • R. Harald Baayen (2008) Analyzing Linguistic Data, A practical introduction to statistics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
  • Gries (2009) Quantitative Corpus Linguistics With R: A Practical Introduction
  • official R site
  • Writing R Extensions
• Groovy Script Engine
  • Official Groovy website
    • Learning section
  • Dierk König, Andrew Glover, Paul King, Guillaume Laforge et al., Groovy in action, Greenwich : Manning, 2007.
  • Barclay, Kenneth A. and Savage, W. J., Groovy programming: an introduction for Java developers, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2007.
  • Venkat Subramaniam, Programming Groovy : dynamic productivity for the Java developer, Daniel H. Steinberg ed., Raleigh, N.C. : Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2008.

Textometry: Corpus Encoding

• Habert Benoît, Fabre Cécile, Issac Fabrice. (1998) De l’écrit au numérique : constituer, normaliser, exploiter les corpus électroniques. Paris, InterÉditions/Masson, Informatiques
• Habert Benoît. (2005) Instruments et ressources électroniques pour le français, Paris, Orphys
• XML & TEI
  • A gentle introduction to XML
  • What is the Text Encoding Initiative?
  • Main structural elements
  • The TEI header
  • Documentation of all elements
  • Elements available for all TEI documents
  • TEI infrastructure
  • Introduction to ODD
    • page ODD du wiki TEI
  • Roma parameterization interface
  • Customizing the TEI with Roma
• NLP (Natural Language Processing)
  • NLP journals
  • TAL journal
  • TreeTagger
    • Helmut, Schmid (1994) - Probabilistic Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Decision Trees