SADiLaR Corpus Portal

Examples of valid queries in Corpus Query Language (CQL):

Search for the word "apple" or the word "pear"["apple" | "pear"] or ["(?i)apple"|"(?i)pear"] (case insensitive)["(?c)apple"|"(?c)pear"] (case sensitive)[word="(apple|pear)"][word="(?c)(apple|pear)"] (case sensitive)
Search for the word "the" followed by a word that starts with "app"["the"] ["app.*"]
Search for the word "be" as a verb["be" & pos="VERB.*"]
Search for any form of "be" as a verb[lemma="be" & pos="VERB.*"]
Search for any form of "be" followed by any form of "happy"[lemma="be"] [lemma="happy"]
Search for exactly two consecutive words starting with "the""the.*"{2}
Search for two or more consecutive words starting with "the""the.*"{2,}
Search for the word "the" followed by a noun"the" [pos="NOUN.*"]
Search for one or more consecutive adjectives followed by the word "apple"[pos="ADJ.*"]+ "apple"[pos="ADJ.*"]{1,} "apple"
Search for the word "the" followed by the word "dog" with a distance of max. 3 words"the" []{0,3} "dog"