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Using Regular Expressions For Searching With Antconc.: Inglés Autmática Y Electrotecnia E.T.S.I.I. Segundo Cuatrimestre

The document provides guidance on using regular expressions to search texts in AntConc software. It gives examples of regular expression patterns that can be used to find examples of grammar structures from the course, including verbs, comparisons, hypothetical conditions, time subordinate clauses, and consequence. Students are instructed to search texts in the software to find examples matching various regular expression patterns and structures from the course units.

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Using Regular Expressions For Searching With Antconc.: Inglés Autmática Y Electrotecnia E.T.S.I.I. Segundo Cuatrimestre

The document provides guidance on using regular expressions to search texts in AntConc software. It gives examples of regular expression patterns that can be used to find examples of grammar structures from the course, including verbs, comparisons, hypothetical conditions, time subordinate clauses, and consequence. Students are instructed to search texts in the software to find examples matching various regular expression patterns and structures from the course units.

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Ingls Autmtica y Electrotecnia

E.T.S.I.I.

Segundo cuatrimestre

Using Regular expressions for searching with AntConc.


If you are interested in regular expressions and their use you can get the basics at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression and http://docs.python.org/lib/re-syntax.html You need to use the software AntConc in the Software folder. Any of the versions will do. This software does not need any installation. It will run by double clicking on its icon.

For doing all the searches with the regular expressions click on the menu File and select the option Open Dir. From there move to either the cartas&memos directory or the text_gen. Remember that the first directory only contains texts of letters and memoranda and the second one contains all types of texts and contains more than 1 million words. As a convention, to indicate a blank space between characters I will use _ (underscore). Now, below and between Files Processed and the button Start, tick on the box Regex. This enables the search using the regular expressions that you are going to type for reviewing the grammar. By clicking on the blue lettering of the results you are taken to the full text. By clicking on the Concordancer tab you are taken back to the list of examples. You can find some examples of use of tverbs with the following patterns ( grasp _grasp[/ed|ing|s/]+_ hold _/hold|holds|holding|held|/+_ (some of the meanings are different from the one learnt in unit 1 seize _seize[a-z]+_ (the meaning in this case will be either confiscar or retener) there are no other examples of the verbs meaning hold. You can try similar patterns with other verbs from the unit vocabulary. Try the following comparison patterns separating each element with a blank space:

_ as _[a-z]+ _ as _

_ not as _ [a-z]+ _ as _

_ just as _ [a-z]+ _ as _

Prof. Ismael Arinas Pelln

DLACT search_regex.pdf

Ingls Autmtica y Electrotecnia

E.T.S.I.I.

Segundo cuatrimestre

_ same _ [a-z]+ _ as _ _ less _ [a-z]+ _ than _

_ [a-z]+er _ than _ _ [a-z]+est _

_ more _ [a-z]+ _ than _ _ [/our|the/]+ _ [a-z]+est _

For the last six patterns you may obtain many examples without an adjective for comparing. Pay attention to the meaning. The last pattern will give you a couple of wrong examples. Try to find the other comparative expressions without the regular expressions (remember to tick off the regex function for these searches without a pattern). Unit 1: try searching the vocabulary without the patterns (nouns, adjectives, adverbs) and with the patterns (verbs). (for regular patterns look at the pattern for grasp, and for irregular at the pattern for hold). (number) out of (number) _ (0-9)+ _ out of _ (0-9)+_ (number) in (number) _ (0-9)+ _ in (0-9)+ _ Example of a search with a verb followed by an infinitive: _ aim[/s|ed|ing/]+ _ to _ Example of a search with a verb followed by a noun / pronoun and an infinitive: _ cause _ [a-z]+ _ to _ (use as many [a-z]+ as you need to represent words in between) Example of verbs followed by ing: _consider[a-]+ _ [a-z]+ing _ Check without patterns those verbs which may take both types of infinitive. Unit 4: see if you can find examples of the unit vocabulary without patterns and see if they have words which typically combine with them. Example of command verb: _ insist[/s|ed|ing]+ _ that _ try searches with adjectives (advisable to, desirable to, important to, etc.) Example of a search with possible: (without patters type possible for) Example of a search with may / might: (without patterns type the verbs and select those examples that are subjunctive in Spanish). Examples of searches with hypothetical conditions: _ [I|i]+f _ [a-z]+ _ [a-z]+ _ [a-z]+ed _ select from the examples obtained those which correspond to the If + subject + verb in the simple past structure. And make sure the Spanish translation corresponds to a subjunctive. For examples with time subordinate sentences make your searches without patterns and using time connectors (as soon as, when, while, before, after, etc.) Notice that some of the time connectors have other meanings and therefore some of the examples will be irrelevant. Check which relevant examples are with the subjunctive in Spanish. With should you will get 2750 examples (searching without a pattern). Find possible patterns that reduce the number of irrelevant examples. Example of consequence search: _ so _ [a-z]+ _ that _ _ such a _ [a-z]+ _ [a-z]+ _ that _ The rest of consequence searches can be carried out without patterns. Unit 9: For searching conditional sentences corresponding to the patterns found in unit 9 you can try _ [I|i]+f _ as the present does not have a typical ending. Then select those examples which correspond to the structures explained in this unit.

Prof. Ismael Arinas Pelln

DLACT search_regex.pdf

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