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    Hi Alex,<br>
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    if this hasn't changed in the newest version, you can combine named
    queries in the following way:<br>
    A = intersection B C;   A = B ∩ C<br>
    A = union B C;             A = B ∪ C<br>
    A = difference B C;      A = B \ C<br>
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    Best<br>
    Hannah<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 14.12.2015 um 13:35 schrieb Yannick
      Versley:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">Hi Alex,
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        <div>if you want to do that with the current CQP, the method I'd
          use (short of using the API)</div>
        <div>would be to dump A, B and C to files (CQP writes a list of
          starting/ending offsets)</div>
        <div>and then concatenate/sort these files and read them back
          in.</div>
        <div>as in</div>
        <div>A=[pos='JJ'][pos='NN']</div>
        <div>Dump A &gt; 'a.txt'</div>
        <div>B=[pos='MD'][pos='VV']</div>
        <div>Dump B &gt; 'b.txt'</div>
        <div>cat a.txt b.txt | sort &gt; ab.txt</div>
        <div>Undump D &lt; 'ab.txt'</div>
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        <div>Best,</div>
        <div>Yannick</div>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 12:30 PM,
          Trklja, Alex <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:A.Trklja@exeter.ac.uk" target="_blank">A.Trklja@exeter.ac.uk</a>&gt;</span>
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            .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear all,<br>
            <br>
            Is it possible in CQP to assign cqp queries to new variables
            and then re-use them or have you thought about including
            something along this line to Ziggurat/CWB4? Say, I have the
            following queries:<br>
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            A= [pos='JJ'] [pos='NN']<br>
            B= [pos='MD] [pos='VV']<br>
            C=[pos='RB'] [pos='VV']<br>
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            And I would like to combine them in the following two ways:<br>
            D=A+B<br>
            E=A+C<br>
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            Thanks.<br>
            Alex<br>
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