Quickstart Guide

1. Quickstart Guide#

1.1. What is the Swiss-AL Platform?#

The Swiss-AL Platform provides tools that allow users to analyze how language is used in Swiss public communication. For instance, you can inspect how the frequency of a particular word has changed over time, in which contexts it usually appears, and in which major topics it typically occurs.

The Swiss-AL Platform contains contemporary journalistic, parliamentary, organizational, and other project-specific corpora. It can be used free of charge for research and teaching purposes.

1.2. How to use the Swiss-AL Platform?#

  1. To get full access to the Swiss-AL Platform, you need to log in with your Switch edu-ID. You can also use the platform without an account, but in that case, you can only access the Demo Corpora, which have been created for demonstration purposes. Please read the Swiss-AL Terms of Use carefully.

Log in

  1. After creating an account, you need to create a project. In your workspace, go to the Current Project section, click Switch, then select Create new project. You can also create and edit your projects in your User Account.

Select project

  1. Enter the project information and click Submit.

Project info

  1. Once you’ve created a project, you can select it using the same menu in your workspace.

Select your project

  1. After selecting a project, you can choose a corpus.

Select a corpus

  1. Finally, you can select a tool to explore and search within your corpus.

Select a tool
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