FAQ

Practical answers about SA7BY® workflows, supported corpus formats, semantic analysis, and access model.

Frequently asked questions

For the full usage guide, see the Documentation.

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    #1

    What is SA7BY® used for?

    SA7BY® is a French corpus analysis platform. It helps you upload text datasets, inspect token-level linguistic annotations, explore sentence context, and run semantic analysis.

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    #2

    Who is SA7BY® for?

    SA7BY® is designed for researchers, doctoral students, and advanced users working on corpus linguistics, textometry, and digital humanities projects.

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    #3

    Which file formats are supported?

    The upload workflow supports spreadsheet-style corpora from CSV and Excel exports, with one dedicated text column selected for analysis.

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    #4

    What linguistic information does SA7BY® provide?

    SA7BY® provides token segmentation, lemmas, POS tags, dependency relations, sentence context, and semantic exploration features for French text.

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    #5

    How does semantic analysis work in SA7BY®?

    Semantic exploration combines lexical resources and distributional models such as WordNet, WOLF, ConceptNet, and FastText to reveal relations and neighbors around query terms.

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    #6

    Do I need to log in to use SA7BY®?

    Yes. The analysis workspace is protected behind authentication. Public pages like the home and FAQ are accessible without login.

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    #7

    Is my corpus data publicly visible?

    No. Analysis routes are private and require an authenticated session. Public pages are informational only.

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    #8

    Where should I start after logging in?

    Start from Upload to process your corpus, continue in Library to inspect token tables and sentences, then open Semantic for targeted term analysis.