Hong Kong Financial
Services Corpus (Advanced Searches)
You can
search for two or three words in combination,
e.g. financial institutions
(search word/phrase one), banks (search word/phrase two) and profit
(search word/phrase three).
Span
- This function allows you to limit the search in terms of the
distance between the search items. For example, a search
for 'asset' and 'bank'
with a span of 2 means that only instances of the words with up
to two intervening words are displayed. (e.g. 'bank
recorded an asset'.
t-score
- a t-score can be used to
calculate the significance of the association of two words. A
t-score of 2.0 or more indicates a significant association. This
function only works for two word searches and a span needs to be
specified.
Sort type
- the instances can be sorted
alphabetically based on the word immediately to the left or the
right of the centred word. If you select 'sort
position' then the second or third words are sorted based
on their position relative to the centred word.
