Implicit Linguistics

Look up a phrase - Find phrases in sentence

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Order the results by:

Size: orders by total length of string, counting all the characters in it.

Ranking: orders by compression score (occurrence)

Score: size x ranking

Search in the database using this method:

Full text: indexed, faster search, with wildcard at the end of the word

Normal: slower, but with wildcard both at the beginning and at the end of the word, using the LIKE %...% statement

Chose which corpus you want to search in:

A corpus is a collection of text in a specific language and style.


Brabants Dagblad: Dutch local newspaper

Corpus Gesproken Nederlands: Corpus of Spoken Dutch

British National Corpus: Official British English Corpus


With skips: a skip is a wildcard which skips one or two words

Minimum number of subpatterns

Show only results containing at least X subpatterns (ngrams which are contained in the main pattern)


In this example, there are 3 subpatterns.

Minimum number of subpatterns example

Maximum number of results per found word

Limits the number of matching ngrams to X per found word. For example, when you search for "hap", the found words are "happened", "happy", and a few more. Here you can set the maximum number of patterns per found word.