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The OBC was part-of-speech tagged using the [[http:// | The OBC was part-of-speech tagged using the [[http:// | ||
- | It is important to keep in mind that synthetic genitives such as // | + | It is important to keep in mind that synthetic genitives such as // |
- | These items then have their own special tag, //GE// and //XX// respectively. However, past and past participle forms involving apostrophes such as //cry’d// are counted as one word. | + | These items then have their own special tag, GE and XX respectively. However, past and past participle forms involving apostrophes such as //cry’d// are counted as one word. |
**Searching with tags** | **Searching with tags** | ||
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In the previous lessons, you have worked with individual specific words. Searching using tags allows you to look at the given phenomena as it occurs across whole classes of words. | In the previous lessons, you have worked with individual specific words. Searching using tags allows you to look at the given phenomena as it occurs across whole classes of words. | ||
- | Let’s take a look at the contracted past tense and participle ending //‘d//. By examining the tagset, we can see that it distinguishes all different types of verbs; modal auxiliaries are tagged as VM, infinitive forms as VVI and so on. In the standard tagest, there is no specific tag for verbs in the forms we are looking for. The easiest way to find the past and past participle contracted forms would then be to search for all verbs that end in //‘d//. To do so, use [[https:// | + | Let’s take a look at the contracted past tense and participle ending //‘d//. By examining the tagset, we can see that it distinguishes all different types of verbs; modal auxiliaries are tagged as VM, infinitive forms as VVI and so on. In the standard tagest, there is no specific tag for verbs in the forms we are looking for. The easiest way to find the past and past participle contracted forms would then be to search for all verbs that end in //‘d//. To do so, use [[https:// |
- | Make sure the query type is set on CQL, you may also set the default attribute below the search window to //tag//, however it is not necessary. If you do so, the square brackets and the specified attribute can be left out in the query (i.e. you can type only " | + | Make sure the query type is set on CQL, you may also set the default attribute below the search window to //tag//, however it is not necessary. If you do so, the square brackets and the specified attribute can be left out in the query (i.e. you can type only '' |
- | [tag=" | + | '' |
- | This query alone would find all verbs in the corpus, but what we need is to limit the search to only the verbs which end with //‘d//. For this, you can make use of the ampersand symbol (//&//) which represents the function of AND. When you connect two or more attributes with //&//, the resultant concordance will include only those occurrences which fulfil all the conditions specified in the query. The second part of the query is the //word// attribute; to look for any word which ends with //‘d//, we can use another regular expression. This time, we want to use the symbol + instead of *, since + represents one or more repetitions of the previous character; this way we avoid the possibility of only //‘d// appearing in the concordance. | + | This query alone would find all verbs in the corpus, but what we need is to limit the search to only the verbs which end with //‘d//. For this, you can make use of the ampersand symbol ('' |
- | [tag=" | + | '' |
- | With this query, we are searching for all words which are tagged as verbs and which at the same time end with //‘d//. The number of hits is 51705 and the relative frequency is 1,459.09. | + | With this query, we are searching for all words which are tagged as verbs and which at the same time end with //‘d//. The number of hits is 51, |
To view the tags of any of the words included in the concordance, | To view the tags of any of the words included in the concordance, | ||
- | {{: | + | {{: |
Here, the word // | Here, the word // | ||
- | You may change this setting by clicking on View → Corpus-specific settings and selecting a different option listed under < | + | You may change this setting by clicking on //View → Corpus-specific settings// and selecting a different option listed under //How to display additional positional attributes?// |
You may have noticed that the forms you searched for (KWIC) are tagged as VVX. This tag is not a part of the standard CLAWS 7 tagset but it was added during the tagging process specifically to the OBC. To read more about the corrections, | You may have noticed that the forms you searched for (KWIC) are tagged as VVX. This tag is not a part of the standard CLAWS 7 tagset but it was added during the tagging process specifically to the OBC. To read more about the corrections, | ||
- | Let’s check the frequency list (Frequency → Node forms [A=a]) to see which verbs are most commonly contracted in this way. | + | Let’s check the frequency list (//Frequency → Node forms [A=a]//) to see which verbs are most commonly contracted in this way. |
{{: | {{: | ||
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To compare the frequency of the contracted forms with the full forms, let’s do a quick search for the full forms of the top four most frequent contracted verbs: | To compare the frequency of the contracted forms with the full forms, let’s do a quick search for the full forms of the top four most frequent contracted verbs: | ||
- | [word=" | + | '' |
- | Go to the frequency list (Frequency → Node forms [A=a]) and compare: | + | Go to the frequency list (//Frequency → Node forms [A=a]//) and compare: |
{{: | {{: | ||
- | Task: | + | <WRAP round help 40%> |
- | | + | **Task:** |
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+ | Try to find all plural nouns in the genitive case which are formed with the //‘s// suffix | ||
* Keep in mind the different tags for different classes of nouns | * Keep in mind the different tags for different classes of nouns | ||
* Make sure the query type is set to CQL | * Make sure the query type is set to CQL | ||
* Notice the spelling conventions – can you find an example in which the genitive //‘s// follows the plural //-s//? How frequent is it? | * Notice the spelling conventions – can you find an example in which the genitive //‘s// follows the plural //-s//? How frequent is it? | ||
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+ | You can find the solution [[en: | ||
- | [[https:// | + | ---- |
- | | + | **If you are ready, you can continue to [[en: |
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