Lindat KonText

List of corpora: http://lindat.mff.cuni.cz/services/kontext/run.cgi/corplist

KonText is a basic web application for querying corpora available within the LINDAT/CLARIN project. It allows evaluation of simple and complex queries, displaying their results as concordance lines, computing frequency distribution, calculating association measures for collocations and further work with language data. This instance is a fork of KonText application (developed by the Institute of the Czech National Corpus) that has been further extended by the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics to suit the needs of LINDAT/CLARIN project.

How to search in a corpus

 

 

  1. After selecting a corpus, you can switch to the other by clicking the corpus name (Corpus:)

     

     

  2. Select the Query Type. To search for words/word sequences, use Basic. For more sophisticated linguistic queries choose CQL ( manual on CQL https://www.sketchengine.co.uk/corpus-querying/#CorpusQueryLanguageCQL )

     

     

  3. Click on "Default attribute" to see the list of attributes. You do not have to switch the attribute if you want to use more of them in your query

     

  4. In order to execute meta-information query (like document or sentence id, etc - the meta-information is unique for each of Lindat corpora), select Specify query according to the meta-information

     

 

 

Further detailed information on KonText search (in English and Czech) can be found here: https://wiki.korpus.cz/doku.php/en:manualy:kontext:index . The description is given for another set of corpora not present in Lindat, so specific corpora information may be different.