Search Modes

Search Modes#

The platform offers three ways to search a corpus. They differ in how much you need to specify and how much control you get in return: Quick Search asks the least of you, Advanced Search gives you the most precision.

If you want to…

Use

Case

Search a word and find all its inflected forms, without learning any syntax

Quick Search

insensitive

Match a word exactly as written, or find words starting or ending with a pattern

Basic Search

sensitive

Search alternatives with OR, or restrict to a part of speech

Basic Search

sensitive

Combine annotations, search sequences of words, use regular expressions or named entities

Advanced Search

sensitive

See also

Both Basic and Advanced Search let you filter by part of speech. The available tags for each language are listed in Tagsets.