University of Malawi - Chancellor College

Centre for Language Studies Corpus Access

Thanks

In the background we are using the IMS Open Corpus Workbench. I have been using and installing this system for any project that deals with corpora since 1996. I have used it in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Zimbabwe and now Malawi. Many thanks, guys and girls.

Here are some hints for using the search language

• Every single word must be enclosed in quotes "xxx"
  • "first-word" "second-word" "third-word"
• The most important regular expressions are:
  • . (that is "dot") = one character, any character
    • "ba.k" = balk bask back bark
  • * = zero or more of the previous character
    • "ab*" (= a (zero) or ab (more) or abbbb (more))
    • ".*" = anything or nothing (zero or more of one character, any character)
    • "ku.*" = words that start with ku and end with anything (or nothing)
  • "+" = one or more of the previous character
    • Like * but it requires at least one character where * is "zero" or more
  • "[set]" = a "set" of characters (s or e or t)
    • ".*[ei]la" = words ending in ila or ela
    • ".*[ei]sa" = words ending in isa or esa

Daniel Ridings