The Abraham Lincoln Songster
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Electronic Text Services, The University of Chicago Library,
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One should type "strings" into the song fields. Entering, for example, little gian will retrieve/search in the song "Get Out De Way, You Little Giant." (You may use upper or lower case letters; field searching is case insensitive.)
To search a single word in a defined corpus simply enter that word in the Search Form. (You may use upper or lower case letters; word searches are case insensitive.) Searching for more than one word in a single search constitutes co-occurrence searching. The vertical line (|) is the OR operator; either space bar or carriage return serves as the AND operator. If looking for every occurrence of the word "liberty" or the word "freedom" in a defined corpus, type liberty|freedom. If looking for occurrences of the words "church" and "state" within the same sentence in any order, enter church state.
To search phrases click on the Phrase Search button. Phrase searching supports all boolean operators as does Key Word and Co-occurrence searching; however, Phrase Searching restricts the search to adjacent words in a particular order (punctuation is ignored). With the Phrase Search button on, the search church state would not retrieve "church and state," but only cases where the word church is next to the word state with the word church preceding.
Pattern matching with regular expression operators allows for the
specification of a large number of words corresponding to a defined pattern.
Entering, for example, fragment.* will retrieve not only fragment, but
also fragments, fragmentary, fragmentariness, and fragmenta, The most commonly
used regular expression operators are:
These expressions can be combined for more sophisticated searches.
Searching old|aged|ancient m.n|fellow.* will retrieve any of the
three adjectives together with the nouns man or fellow in the singular
or plural when they appear in the same sentence. Clicking on the Phrase
Search button will determine that the adjective must precede the noun
and that the adjective and noun must be adjacent.
Accented letters are specified by a combination of two characters with the vowel followed by the appropriate symbol. These are:
grave = back slash (e.g., à = a\) acute = forward slash (e.g., é = e/) circumflex = caret (e.g., ê = e^) cedilla = comma (e.g., ç = c,) diaeresis = double quote (e.g., ï = i")
To search regardless of accent use uppercase letters (e.g., to search naïveté regardless of accents type naIvetE).
Concordance reporting is the default output option. This report indicates the number of texts searched, the terms searched for in the defined corpus, and the total number of occurrences in the defined corpus. Following this general information is a list of occurrences. Each occurrence is represented by a short citation consisting of abbreviations of the author's name, the title of the work, and a reference for where the word/words in question occur. References may be page numbers, acts and scenes, chapters and verses, paragraphs, or the like. Below the short citation there is a passage of context consisting of some forty words on either side of the key word, which is highlighted (in multi-word searches only the first word is highlighted). At the bottom of the report full bibliographic references for each work cited are displayed.
The reference listed with the short citation is linked to the page server, which allows you to retrieve full context again with the initial key word highlighted.
In cases where a search finds more than twenty-five occurrences, the report provides the first twenty-five occurrences with a link to the remaining occurrences of the report. Clicking on the link to the "Rest of Results" will retrieve the remaining occurrences. Note: when results number over hundreds or thousands of occurrences, the report may not be complete when you first start to view results. The server continues to append results until it has completed the entire report, which will be indicated by END OF REPORT. If you come to what appears to be the end of a report, but do not see the tag END OF REPORT, press your WWW Reload button to retrieve the rest of the results added since you first started viewing results.
As in a Concordance Report, a KWIC (Key Word in Context) Report indicates the number of texts searched, the terms searched for in the defined corpus, and the total number of occurrences in the defined corpus. A KWIC Report differs from a Concordance Report in that it limits the context displayed to only some ten words of text for each occurrence. As in a Concordance report, clicking on the short citation reference will retrieve full context with initial key word highlighted.
In cases where a search finds more than twenty-five occurrences, the report provides the first twenty-five occurrences with a link to the remaining occurrences of the report. Clicking on the link to the "Rest of Results" will retrieve the remaining occurrences. Note: when results number over hundreds or thousands of occurrences, the report may not be complete when you first start to view results. The server continues to append results until it has completed the entire report, which will be indicated by END OF REPORT. If you come to what appears to be the end of a report, but do not see the tag END OF REPORT, press your WWW Reload button to retrieve the rest of the results added since you first started viewing results.
A Frequency by Title Report indicates a count of occurrences by title in descending order of frequency. If curious how frequently an author uses a term in one work as compared to his other works or in his works as compared to others' works, you could use this function. Any definable corpus or search can be used in generating this report. Note: Unlike Concordance and KWIC reports, this report does not display text.
Please direct comments or queries about this site to:
Electronic Text Services, The University of Chicago Library,
ets@lib.uchicago.edu.