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 |
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Search a word and find all its inflected forms, without learning any syntax |
insensitive |
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Match a word exactly as written, or find words starting or ending with a pattern |
sensitive |
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Search alternatives with OR, or restrict to a part of speech |
sensitive |
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Combine annotations, search sequences of words, use regular expressions or named entities |
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.