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Thanks a lot Stefan and Andrew. This will come in very handy. <br>
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I have a little question about the query Stefan suggests. Suppose I
want to find out the frequencies of lemmas for the non-finite forms
of the verb that appear after the auxiliary 'haber' in the following
query:<br>
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{haber} _V*<br>
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If I do:<br>
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<pre wrap=""><big>_V* <<1<< {haber}
this returns, as you said, the final token of the match. If I then apply the frequency breakdown, I can get the frequencies for the forms of _V* and that is already much better than what I could do before. But what I really wanted to get was the frequencies for the lemmas not for the forms. I don't see any way of getting that.
I tried to use the 'frequency list' option from the right column menu and selected 'lemma' in 'view a list based on ...' but this selection doesn't stay put when I go to the screen where I can introduce the query before the frequency breakdown.</big>
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You say MU queries are "more or less" undocumented which I take it
to mean that they are somewhat documented. Is there any chance I can
get my hands on some of these, incomplete as they may be, documents?
I don't know whether such documents would provide answers to
questions like the one I just asked but I could use this information
to write a little mini-guide so that our students using CQPWeb know
about the additional possibilities they have.<br>
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JM<br>
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<pre wrap="">What I was trying to obtain was the frequency of lemmas that are instantiations of 'POS Y' in a search string of the form 'lemma X POS Y'. In the command line I would have used:
$ count Last by lemma %cd on matchend;
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In this simple case, you can get away with a trick that depends on the more or less undocumented MU queries and their deprecated semantics …
If your original query is
[lemma = "LEM"] [pos = "POS"];
the MU expression
MU(meet [pos="POS"] [lemma="LEM"] -1 -1)
returns just the final token of each match, and you can apply frequency breakdown to do the counts.
This is much nicer in CEQL query syntax:
_POS <<1<< {LEM}
Unfortunately, this approach doesn't generalize if you want to count sequences of multiple words or if the original query contains repetition operators.
Cheers,
Stefan
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