| IMS/CWB Style | Description and Examples |
| "word" | Single word query Inside the double quotation marks you can use regular expressions |
| "\047" | Apostrophe (it is a special character and creates problems if you
insert "'".) |
| "word"%c | Single word query (case insensitive) |
| "word1" "word2" | Concatenation Operator. Example: "the" "book" |
| "word1" | "word2" | OR Operator. Example: "the" ("beautiful" | "red") "book" |
| "word1" []{0,AFT} "word2" | Retrieve
all the occurrences of word2 in the context following the word word2. Example: "the" []{0,4} "book" the book of the beautiful red book |
| IMS/CWB Style | Description and Examples |
| [pos="pos-tag"] [lemma="lemma-entry"] |
Single pos or lemma query. Examples: [pos="NN"] -> all the common nouns (see the PoS-tag list) [lemma="andare"] -> all the forms corresponding to the lemma "andare" |
| [word="word1" & pos="pos-tag"] | Search a word with a specific PoS-tag. Example: [word="amo" & pos="NN"] Or search a word that DOES NOT have a specific PoS-tag. Example: [word="amo" & pos!="NN"] |
For more query options please refer
to sections 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8 and A.1 of IMS/CQP Tutorial.
In order to help the tagging process, CORIS and CODIS have been tokenised by considering some multi-word expressions as a single token. Here you can find the list of considered MWE extracted from the De Mauro/Paravia (2000) dictionary.