KWiCFinder
Key Word in Context
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Sample Search Reports

Sample reports from searches conducted with KWiCFinder in both HTML (compatible with all browsers) and interactive XML (compatible with Internet Explorer only) formats.  Follow this link for details of the various XML report formats.

Notes

1. The XML reports have been saved as HTML files, so they can be viewed in any browser. Nevertheless, they are interactive only when displayed in Internet Explorer ver. 5.0 or greater.
2. Interactivity allows the user to select citations to hide, delete, annotate or classify them, and to hide or display other elements of the search report.
3. Please explore this interactivity by clicking on citations and choosing report elements to show or hide. Note however that changes made to the search reports can only be saved from within KWiCFinder (not your browser).
4. The results of a search can be redisplayed in any of the languages or formats supported. Note that the "language of a search report" only refers to the text of the report.  The citations are always shown in the original language (KWiCFinder does not translate them).
5. Since the HTML searches were conducted in November 1999 and the XML searches were carried out in April 2001, their content for the same query differs significantly.

Dutch

• Behoren
• Purpose: to assess the validity of a claim made in a grammar of Dutch reviewed by the KWiCFinder developer that the verb behoren 'to belong' frequently takes an indirect object
• Query phrase entered using "tamecards" (this abbreviated notation generates all possible and several nonce forms, which match nothing and thus do not impede the search). The exclusion criterion "South Africa" was added after the first search returned a document in Afrikaans, not Dutch:
  beho[o,]r[de,den,t,en,] Exclude domain:za
• XML report in Dutch, Paragraph format
• XML report in French, Table format

English

• KWiC Concordance
• Purpose: to evaluate online documents dealing with Key-Word in Context concordancing
• Query phrase entered: kwic AND concordance*
• XML report in English, Table format
• XML report in German, Paragraph format
• XML report in Spanish, KWiC format
• "Raw" XML
  This is the actual report file generated by KWiCFinder, which was then "transformed" by XSLT stylesheets to produce the browser-friendly HTML you see via the links above. Note the intuitive tag names for each element of the report.
  May not display properly in all browsers. Looks best in Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher. 

French

• French Indirect Questions
• Purpose: to find examples of indirect discourse and to demonstrate "tamecards"
• Query phrase entered: [m,t,lui,nous,vous,leur] [a,ont] demandé si
• HTML report
• XML report in French, Paragraph format
• XML report in Dutch, KWiC format

German

• Sondern
• Purpose: to find examples of sondern joining two main clauses
• Query phrase entered: sondern
• HTML report
• XML report in German, Table format

• Volksfeste
• Purpose: to find readings on popular festivals in Germany, excluding the most frequent type
• Query phrase entered: Volksfest* Include domain:de Exclude Schützenfest*
• HTML report
• XML report in French, Table format

• Aberglaube
• Purpose: to find additional short readings / examples of popular superstitions in Germany to complement a reading in the textbook
• Query phrase entered: aberglaub*, which matches all forms of Aberglaube(n) and abergläubisch (the spurious form abergläubig was found as well)
• HTML report
• XML report in German, Table format

• Ihr fahrt
• Purpose: to demonstrate the use of the "sic" option to match the verb form (ihr) fahrt but not Fahrt or fährt, which the AltaVista implicit wildcards for lower-case and plain characters match as well
• Query phrase entered: fahrt with "sic" option checked (a more efficient way to do this would have been ihr NEAR fahrt with "sic" option and max 1 word away)
• HTML report

Spanish

• Querer que
• Purpose: to find examples of present and imperfect subjunctive after querer que
• Query phrase entered: qu[e,ie]r* que
• HTML report
• XML report in Spanish, Paragraph format

• Rey Juan Carlos I
• Purpose: to evaluate readings on King Juan Carlos to supplement outdated piece in textbook.
• Query phrase entered: Juan Carlos NEAR rey
• HTML report
• XML report in Spanish, Table format

• El Juli
• Purpose: to find additional information about the youthful bullfighter El Juli to complement a textbook reading
• Query phrase entered: El Juli
• HTML report
• XML report in Spanish, Paragraph format

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