Eckhard Bick - VISL

Here, three results of this quite specific search task are given. Note that, again, the
"enriched text" notation permits text coherence and facilitates context understanding.
The particular structure looked for is marked by fat arrows, but thanks to the concise
notation, the whole sentence context can be shown together with most of the tags.
Even tags not shown, like the inflexion category 'plural', the base form 'amigo'
or the valency feature 'monotransitive', can be searched for: Virtually any
combination of word forms, base forms, inflexion tags and syntactic function can be
searched for each individual word in any combination of words as well as one ore
more obligatory or optional dummy words. Obviously, the real search pattern for
complex searches is much longer than the chain of tags entered by the user. The
system automatically "translates" the search parameters into a regular expression
string (cp., for instance, the search pattern line at the top of [1]) to be used by fast,
specialised search algorithms running on the UNIX based grammar server.
Let's look at another example, where a student wants to write an essay on
another aspect of infinitive function, - infinitive arguments after prepositions. A
corresponding search (PRP_INF @#ICL-P