since manatee 2.84
Using Word Sketch data in CQL
Concordances generated form Word Sketch data, i.e. those containing collocations, can be used in CQL. To generate such a concordance, use this syntax:
[ws(headword,relation,collocation)]
Relations
Relation is the name of the relation as it appears in the header of the column on the word sketch screen. You can often guess the name by using a regular expression like this:
".*subject.*"
For the exact name of the relation, please refer to the word sketch screen. The headword should be exchanged for “%w”, respective \”%w\” as the quotes need to be backslashed in CQL. For example, the Word Sketch relation modifiers of “book” can be written as a CQL query [ws(“book-n”, “modifiers of \”%w\””, “.*”)] and the relation “book” and/or … will become [ws(“book-n”, “\”%w\” and/or \.\.\.”, “.*”)] (again, dots need to be backslashed).
Remember that Word Sketches are generated from lempos, so it is necessary to use a hyphen and the shortened PoS tag. For example to generate a concordance with test (as a noun) being the object of conduct (as a verb), use this:
[ws("test-n",".*object.*","conduct-v")]
A regular expression can be used for all three values.
Specifying the headword
In the resulting concordance, the headword is taken for a KWIC and the collocations are used as a filter. It is possible to specify the headword by using the regular expression AND inside the square brackets. For example, to search for all relations of lempos ‘book-n’ where the word appears in the plural form, you can use a CQL query:
[ws("book-n", ".*", ".*") & tag="NNS"]
Prepositional phrases
The prepositional phrases can be searched by the following syntax:
[ws("headword", "\.\.\. [^ /]+ \"%w\"", ".*") | ws("headword", "\"%w\" [^ /]+ \.\.\.", ".*")]
In case only specific prepositions should be displayed, it is possible to insert them instead of [^ /]. This example will find concordance lines with the headword ‘test’ as a noun and prepositions of, in, or at:
[ws("test-n", "\.\.\. (of|in|at) \"%w\"", ".*") | ws("test-n", "\"%w\" (of|in|at) \.\.\.", ".*")]
Combinations with other CQL
The Word Sketch CQL can be combined with other CQL markers. To generate a concordance where the headword test is modified by blood and followed or preceded by the lemma be, use this:
(meet [ws("test-n",".*modifiers of.*","blood-n")] [lemma="be"] -1 1)
