QUERIES
All of the corpora have exactly the same architecture and interface, which allows users to carry out the following types of searches. One of the important advantages of our corpus architecture is that with one simply query and one click, users can analyze variation by comparing different sections of a corpus; e.g. genres in COCA or the BNC, dialects in GloWbE or NOW, or across time periods (COHA, TIME, recent changes in COCA or NOW, and Google Books (Advanced)).
| Visualization. You can see (examples with end up V-ing): | Limiting and comparing sections |
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1) a
chart with the
overall frequency of all matching strings 2) the individual strings (overall - all sections) 3) individual strings (in each section of the corpus: genre, dialect, or time period) |
1. You
can also limit the search to just particular sections of the corpus (e.g.
hard
NOUN in
Fiction) 2. More importantly, you can compare between two sections of the corpus (e.g. hard NOUN in FIC vs ACAD) -- either by genre, dialect, or time period. |
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| Type of search | COCA-General | COCA-Genres | GloWbE-Dialects | COHA-Historical |
| Specific word or phrase | I guess | validity | lah! | of no little |
| Substring | *al_j | *al_j (MAG/ACAD) | *ism (core/SAsia) | *ism (earlier/later) |
| Lemma (forms of a word) |
CONJ PRON BE like , ( and she was like , ) |
ADJ CHAIN (FIC/ACAD) | BE different to | HAVE quite V-ed |
| Part of speech | ADJ eyes | ADJ body (MAG/ACAD) | went ADJ | a most ADJ NOUN |
| Synonyms | =strong | =strong (FIC/ACAD) | =beautiful WOMAN | =beautiful =girl |
| User-defined lists | @colors @clothes | FEEL @emotions (FIC/ACAD) | @colors @clothes | felt @emotions |
| Sortable concordance lines | fathom | argue (ACAD) | diametrically | swell (1930s) |
| Collocates (nearby words) | BREAK_v | chair (FIC/ACAD) | scheme (US/GB) | gay (earlier/later) |
| -- Use Mutual Information score | BREAK_v | |||
| -- Compare two words | utter / sheer |