context for CSV export

[otichy]

The CSV exporter is great and informative for further analyses, but it misses the left/right context of e.g. the Simple Text Exporter. This kind of context is often crucial, especially when applying NLP or LLM tools.
Currently, you have two export twice, CSV and e.g. Simple Text and merge the files via line numbers, which is not ideal.

[thomaskrause]

Yes the exporter are unfortunately limited and there is flexibility missing. This is also due to limitations how to configure the different exporters with a user-friendly UI. It would probably need a rewrite of the exporter part of ANNIS to make it much more user friendly. If the corpus files are available, there is a much better alternative available with the Annimate tool:

https://matthias-stemmler.github.io/annimate/user-guide/

It defaults to column-exports but is more more configurable, including adding columns for context.

[otichy]

I seem to remember that ANNIS3 used to have context size settings for CSV, but it did not apply? So from a UI point of view, adding left/right context settings and based on that the Simple Text style output column could perhaps solve it. But I am sure there are complications I am not seeing.
In any case, thanks for pointing out Annimate, I remember trying it out and then forgetting about it. I will pick it up again!