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Tools for managing and querying large text corpora with linguistic annotations. Version 3.5.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-08-02.

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macOS

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brew install cwb3

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overview

Package summary

Tools for managing and querying large text corpora with linguistic annotations

Commands and aliases

  • cqp
  • cqpcl
  • cqpserver
  • cwb-align
  • cwb-align-decode
  • cwb-align-encode
  • cwb-align-show
  • cwb-atoi
  • cwb-compress-rdx
  • cwb-config
  • cwb-decode
  • cwb-decode-nqrfile
  • cwb-describe-corpus
  • cwb-encode
  • cwb-huffcode
  • cwb-itoa
  • cwb-lexdecode
  • cwb-makeall
  • cwb-s-decode
  • cwb-s-encode
  • cwb-scan-corpus

history

Project history and usage

The IMS Open Corpus Workbench is an open-source suite for indexing, managing, and querying large linguistically annotated text corpora, centered on the CQP query processor.

Project history

The official site says the first official open-source release of the Corpus Workbench was version 3.0 and that version 3.5 is the current stable release. The SourceForge project was registered on February 18, 2005 and continues to host code, files, and project activity.

Adoption history

CWB is adopted in corpus-linguistics and language-research settings where large annotated corpora need compact indexes, efficient token and annotation search, and command-line or backend access for scripts and web interfaces.

How it is used

Users encode corpora with CWB command-line tools, query them interactively or programmatically with CQP, and use the official manuals for the CQP language, corpus encoding, sample corpora, and related tooling.

Why package nerds care

As a package, cwb3 is a dense research-tool bundle: it ships many small executables, a domain-specific query language, and long-lived data formats that matter to reproducible corpus analysis.

Timeline

  • 2005: SourceForge project registration.
  • Version 3.0: First official open-source CWB release.
  • Version 3.5: Current stable CWB release on the official site.
  • 2026: SourceForge project activity remains current.

Related projects

  • Related official projects include CQPweb, CWB/Perl, the CQi interface, and the CQP query language.

security posture

Risk level: blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Risk classifier

blue risk · medium confidence · tool

Why

  • broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signals

  • text:compress,server

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Installs with 4 runtime dependencies.
  • Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
cqpcliglobal executable
cqpclcliglobal executable
cqpservercliglobal executable
cwb-aligncliglobal executable
cwb-align-decodecliglobal executable
cwb-align-encodecliglobal executable
cwb-align-showcliglobal executable
cwb-atoicliglobal executable
cwb-compress-rdxcliglobal executable
cwb-configcliglobal executable
cwb-decodecliglobal executable
cwb-decode-nqrfilecliglobal executable
cwb-describe-corpuscliglobal executable
cwb-encodecliglobal executable
cwb-huffcodecliglobal executable
cwb-itoacliglobal executable
cwb-lexdecodecliglobal executable
cwb-makeallcliglobal executable
cwb-s-decodecliglobal executable
cwb-s-encodecliglobal executable
cwb-scan-corpuscliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-04
manager version3.5.0
manager updated2026-08-02
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected

https://cwb.sourceforge.io/

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:cwb3
Version3.5.0
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cwb3
Homepagehttps://cwb.sourceforge.io/
Upstream docshttps://cwb.sourceforge.io/
LicenseGPL-2.0-or-later
Source archivehttps://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/cwb/cwb/cwb-3.5/source/cwb-3.5.0-src.tar.gz
Last updated2026-08-02T22:24:12-04:00
Pulseupdated
Dependenciesgettext, glib, pcre2, readline
Build dependenciespkgconf
Uses from macOSncurses
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared
CaveatsCWB default registry directory: $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/share/cwb/registry

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namecwb3
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

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Related tools

  • glibRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • pcre2Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • gettextRuntime dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • pkgconfBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

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