Mink tutorial

This is a quick walkthrough on how to use Mink. You can also read more about Mink or refer to the full user manual.

1. Download and unzip kontinenter_txt.zip (39 KB). It contains a folder of seven plain-text files with text from Swedish Wikipedia.

2. Sign in at spraakbanken.gu.se/mink. If you don't already have access through your university or workplace, follow the instructions to create an account.

3. When signed in, go to your Library

4. Open the folder with the text files in your system file explorer and drag them into Mink

   

5. Click Edit in the Settings panel and enter something like "Continents" in the Name field (it's "Världsdelar" in Swedish)

6. Click Run annotation in the Analysis panel and wait for it to finish – it might take a few minutes. If you get a warning about long sentences, you can safely ignore it.

7. When done, you can click Install in the Explore panel, first for Korp and then for Strix. Wait for each installation to finish.

8. Click Open near the Korp label to open the corpus in Korp

   • In the text field, enter "djur" (Swedish for "animal"), wait for the autocomplete and then select djur (noun)
   • Check the "medial part" box near the text field to include compound words
   • Click "Search" and inspect the results
   • Read more in the Korp user manual
   

9. Back in Mink, click Open near the Strix label to open the corpus i Strix.

   • If the interface is not already in English, click English in the top right
   • Find the document beginning with "Afrika är jordens näst största kontinent" and click the title, which is "N/A"
   • Click the fifth word in the text, "största" (eng: "largest"), and inspect the attributes in the sidebar
   • Under the Sense attribute, click the blue link stor¹ to highlight all occurrences of this sense in the text
   • Click the orange link stor¹ (with the fish icon) to open the lexicon entry in the Karp platform