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+  <p><strong>KorAP</strong> is a new Corpus Analysis Platform, suited for large, multiple annotated corpora and complex search queries independent of particular research questions.</p>
+  <p>This is the new frontend for KorAP, <strong>Kalamar</strong>, with currently no access to restricted corpora. For full access, please visit the <a href="http://korap.ids-mannheim.de/app">first frontend</a>. <noscript>Kalamar expects activated JavaScript for some features.</noscript></p>
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+  <p><strong>New to KorAP?</strong> Please check out our <a href="#">tutorial</a>!</p>
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+  <p>KorAP is developed at the <a href="http://www.ids-mannheim.de">Institute for the German Language</a>, member of the <a href="http://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/en/about-us/leibniz-competition/projekte-2011/2011-funding-line-2/">Leibniz Association</a>. The separated modules are being published as open source at <a href="http://github.com/KorAP">GitHub</a>.</p>
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+    <a href="http://www.ids-mannheim.de/" class="logo"><p id="ids-logo"><span>Developed at the Institute for the German Language (IDS)</span></p></a>
+    <a href="http://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/" class="logo"><p id="leibniz-logo"><span>Member of the Leibniz Association</span></p></a>
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