GDEX and GDEX Tools installation

Both GDEX and GDEX Tools are distributed as Python distutils packages that are installed in a standard way:

python setup.py install

Additionally:

• Sketch Engine automatically detects gdex (must be in PYTHONPATH) and unlocks respective functionality, it expects the GDEX working directory to be at /corpora/gdex/.
• GDEX Tools requires a CGI script to be created that calls method run_protected of gdextools.www.Interface.

Prerequisities:

Currently prerequisities are not checked automatically. Except from the fact that gdex_tools requires gdex to run, all prerequisities are optional and if missing, dependent functions will not work, but others will remain unaffected.

• manatee (corpus related classifiers, evaluation of sentences in corpora; see also Compatibility matrix)
•  arff (export to arff, Weka classifier)

Adding configurations

The online interface provides a special page for uploading user configurations to Sketche Engine. Local installations need to modify gdexpath variable in run.cgi in section # ConcCGI options.

The value should contain a list of tuples ('configuration_name', 'full_path_to_the_configuration). E.g.:

class BonitoCGI (WSketchCGI, UserCGI, WSEval):
    ...
    # ConcCGI options
    gdexpath = [('Shorter', '/corpora/gdex/configurations/shorter')]
    ...

Alternatively a path to default configuration of a corpus can be set in its registry file using GDEXDEFAULTCONF.