<div style="line-height:1.7;color:#000000;font-size:14px;font-family:arial">Hi Stefan,<br><br>Thanks for your suggestion. That helps. And forgive me for making your name into something different.. (blush)<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><pre><br>At 2012-10-17 06:34:13,"Stefan Evert" <stefanML@collocations.de> wrote:
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>> 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:
>> [pos="VB.*"] "that" [:pos!= "JJ.*| N.*":]
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>> 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.
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>No, unfortunately not. These "zero-width assertions" were implemented for an entirely different purpose (being able to make assertions similar to the global constraint at arbitrary places within a CQP query), and the ability to check one additional token after the end of the match is just a useful side-effect.
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>If you're working directly with CQP or with an interface that's under your control, you can easily filter out unwanted matches after running the query, like so:
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> A = [pos="VB.*"] "that" [:pos!= "JJ.*| N.*":];
> set A keyword nearest [pos = "N.*"] within left 1 word;
> delete A with keyword;
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>etc. This mechanism is much more flexible than zero-width assertions, of course, but it cannot be used through a Web interface (such as BNCweb or CQPweb) that only allows users to enter plain CQP queries.
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>Hope this helps
>Stefan
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