Mimir Query Examples


Contents


See also this example query session.

1. Simple Queries

1.1. Plain Text Query

Any word is a plain text query.

Plain text query.


1.2. Named Index Query

Multiple indexes can be used to represent different views of the text. A typical configuration could include string, part-of-speech, and morphological root.

Part-of-speech query: searching for gerund verbs. The reference for the part of speech labels used by Mimir can be found in the GATE Manual.
Part of speech query.


Morphological root query: searching for various forms of the verb to be.
Morphological root query.


1.3. Sequence

Sequence is the default operator: any sequence of queries is treated a phrase query.

A sequence query.


2. Annotation Queries

Annotation queries are used to find occurrences of annotations, specified using the annotation type and, if required, feature values.

Searching for references to figures (using the Reference annotation and its type feature).
References to figures.


Searching for interval measurements (using the Measurement annotation and its type feature).
Interval Measurements.


Searching for measurements of a particular dimension (e.g. length).
Length measurement.


Combining multiple feature constraints, e.g. dimension and type:
Interval pressure measurements.


For Measurement annotations, a special virtual attribute named spec can be used to specify the range of values desired:
The spec feature for measurements.

3. Complex Queries

Various operators can be used to create compound queries.

3.1. Boolean

Boolean operators can be used, e.g. disjunction (either "OR" or "|" can be used):
Boolean OR.

...or conjunction (either "AND" or "&" can be used):
Boolean AND.


3.2. Overlap Operators

IN queries: searching for hits of a query inside hits of another (e.g. London or New York, inside Reference annotations).
IN query.


OVER queries: searching for hits of a query that cover the hits of another query (e.g. only Reference annotations that contain the word London).
OVER query.


3.3. Combining operators

The various available operators can be arbitrarily combined to create complex queries.

Two-dimensional measurements:
Bi-dimensional measurements.


Measurement ranges:
Measurement ranges.


Finding the subject of a measurement:
Measurement subject.