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The standard search function searches the entire core corpus by default. Here you can choose to include or exclude Europarl from your query.

In the advanced search you can refine your search using different filters from the drop-down menus.* In addition, you can activate or deactivate the options above the search fields.

Lemmatization will be applied to your search by default. Enter your search term within quotation marks " " to search for the exact word form or the exact phrase. (s. table 1 and 2)

The search supports single (?), multiple character (*), and fuzzy (~) wildcard searches. (s. table 1 and table 2)

For more complex searches, you can use the operators AND, OR, NOT and the distance operator ~ or a combination of them. These searches must be preceded by the expression [SS] (Solr Search). (s. table 1 and 2)

You can search for one word or for a word sequence (= multi word search). (s. table 2)

Results of multi word searches include text fragments in which the queried words appear at a distance of 0 or 1 word between them. For longer distances between the queried words, attach die distance operator ~2, ~3, etc. to the last word of the query and begin the query with the [SS] operator. Distance operators are interval-driven, i.e., recall text fragments where the queried words appear with a maximum of 2, 3, etc. words between them.

In multi word searches you can also use the multiple character wildcard (*) to query any token (typically a word). You can also use the regex expression [a-z]+ to search for any word These searches must be preceded by the expression [SS] (Solr Search) (see table 2).

The advanced search function supports bilingual searches. To search for an expression with a specific correspondence in the other language, enter each term (words or word sequences) in the corresponding language field. (s. table 3)

Search examples

Table 1: Simple Word

Table 2: Multi word search

Table 3: Bilingual search

Display of the search results

Matches are displayed in sets of 100 bitexts. Matches in the original texts are displayed first in the left column. Matches in the translated texts are displayed afterwards in the right column. Finally, the translation matches from a third language are shown.

Reference information is displayed in square brackets after every match, comprising work ID, and the corresponding section of the work: part and/or chapter [0000, 1, 1].

By clicking on the work ID you will navigate to a page where you can see a larger context along with the bibliographical information.

You can find following abbreviations within the texts:

[n_t_s] in the translation text means that an original string has not been translated.

[a_s_t] in the original text means that a string has been added by the translator.

[…] indicates that some text (in original and translation) was not included.

* For languages the standard code ISO 639-1is used, for dialectal varieties the two-letter code ISO 3166-2 of the corresponding country is added.