<div style="line-height:1.7;color:#000000;font-size:14px;font-family:arial">Some clarification.<br><br>I used a:[] [pos="VB.*"] "that" [:pos!= "JJ.*| N.*":] :: a.pos!="N.*" and it does help filter out all nouns preceding the token "that" but the label "a" inserts itself as part of the query result so that seems not be a neat solution. What is intended for in my previous post is something like a zero-width assertion (but in the front of a query expression) .<br><div><br><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);"><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Best,</span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ray</span></span><br></span></span></div><div id="divNeteaseMailCard"></div><br>At 2012-10-16 21:42:56,"Ray Wu" <liangpingwu@126.com> wrote:<br> <blockquote id="isReplyContent" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><div style="line-hei
ght:1.7;color:#000000;font-size:14px;font-family:arial">Hi all,<br><br>CQP's zero-width assertions are quite handy when we want to filter out some tokens after a CQP query. A typical example is given in Stephen's "Inside the IMS Corpus Workbench" presentation to find clausal verb complement:<br><a href="http://124.193.83.252/cqp/clob/index.php?thisQ=search&insertString=%5B%3Apos%21%3D%22N.%2A%22%3A%5D+%5Bpos%3D%22VB.%2A%22%5D+%22that%22+%5B%3Apos%21%3D+%22JJ.%2A%7C+N.%2A%22%3A%5D&insertType=cqp&uT=y">[pos="VB.*"] "that" [:pos!= "JJ.*| N.*":]</a><br><br>My question is: is there a way in CQP to limit the content BEFORE a CQP query? I guess that mechanism might be equally handy in other situations.<br><br>Thanks for any input.<br><br>Best<br>Ray<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><div><br><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);"><span style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Best,</span><br><span style="col
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