Advanced search

A advanced search enables you to carry out more sophisticated queries and determine exactly which parts of COMPARA you wish to use. Your results can be presented in the form of parallel concordances and in several other ways. Simply follow the steps below.

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1. Select search direction

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 From Portuguese to English
 From English to Portuguese

2. Enter search query
2.1 Word or expression query

Insert search word or expression:
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Specify an alignment constraint (optional)
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Case insensitive
Ignore accents and cedillas
Case insensitive
Ignore accents and cedillas
2.2 Further query options

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 Translators' notes  Sentences added to translation
 Titles  Sentences deleted from translation
 Foreign words and expressions  Sentences reordered in translation
 Words and expressions highlighted for emphasis  Sentences joined together in translation
 Named entities  Sentences split in translation
   All of the above sentence changes
3. Use only a specific part of the corpus (optional)
3.1 Choose varieties of Portuguese and English

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Portuguese English
 Angola  South Africa
 Brazil  United Kingdom
 Mozambique  United States
 Portugal  
3.2 Select dates of publication

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Use only source texts first published     (ex: 1990)
Use only translations first published     (ex: 1990)
3.3 Distinguish source texts from translations

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 Search only from source texts to translations
 Search only from translations back to source texts

4. Choose output
    
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Concordances:

 Parallel concordances  
    (   show alignment properties  hide translators' notes  show part-of-speech tags)

Parallel distribution:

 Combined distribution of Portuguese and English search expressions

Other distributions:

 Forms  Sources  Semantic field**
 Lemma  Author  Colour
 Part-of-speech  Variety of English      (  group Other and Multiple together)
 Verb tense, case or degree*  Variety of Portuguese  
 Person or number*  Original and translated text  
 Gender*    

*available only for Portuguese; **available only for colour