## CorpusSearch 2 users guide

Citation: Randall, Beth, Anthony Kroch, and Beatrice Santorini. 2004-. CorpusSearch 2 users guide. https://github.com/beatrice57/CorpusSearch.

The CorpusSearch program, version 2_003.04 (Randall 2004) can be downloaded at https://corpussearch.sourceforge.net, but the users guide is no longer being maintained at that site. The current document is a revised and improved live version.

Please send questions and suggestions for improvement to Beatrice Santorini (beatrice DOT santorini AT gmail DOT com).

- Acknowledgments

- Introduction
  - Installing and running CorpusSearch
  - Basic concepts
  - What's new in CorpusSearch 2

- The CorpusSearch query language
  - Overview of the query language
  - Search functions
  - The command file
  - Customizing CorpusSearch
    - Definition files
    - Preference files

- Searching
  - Understanding CorpusSearch output
  - Troubleshooting

- Additional functions
  - Coding queries
  - Corpus revision
  - Lexicon creation
  - Local frames
  - Reformatting
  - Tag list

- Compatibility requirements for parsed corpora

- Searching POS-tagged corpora

- CorpusDraw: A graphical annotation tool for parsed corpora - This functionality is now superseded by annotation tools such as Annotald.