If you use CQPweb in your published research, it would be very much appreciated if you could provide readers with a reference to the following paper:

• Hardie, A (2012) CQPweb - combining power, flexibility and usability in a corpus analysis tool. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 17 (3): 380–409. [Full text on publisher's website] [Alternative source for paper download]

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CQPweb was created by Andrew Hardie (Lancaster University).

Most of the architecture, the look-and-feel, and even some snippets of code were shamelessly half-inched from BNCweb.

BNCweb's most recent version was written by Sebastian Hoffmann (University of Trier) and Stefan Evert (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg). It was originally created by Hans-Martin Lehmann, Sebastian Hoffmann, and Peter Schneider.

The underlying technology of CQPweb is manifold.

• Concordancing is done using the IMS Corpus Workbench with its CQP corpus query processor. Thus the name.
   
• Other functions (collocations, corpus management etc.) are powered by MySQL databases.
   
• The system uses Stefan Evert's Simple Query (CEQL) parser, which is written in Perl.
   
• The web-scripts are written in PHP.
   
• Some JavaScript is used to create interactive links and forms.
   
• The look-and-feel relies on Cascading Style Sheets plus good old fashioned HTML.