Crossing Boundaries through Corpora

This paper addresses the pressing issue of accessibility of corpora to users who are not able or willing to learn a formal query language. It introduces a working online automatic translator from a near-natural language into the Corpus Query Language (CQL), as used in SketchEngine , Czech National Corpus web applications, and other services. The translator does not require strict syntactical patterns and allows for a certain amount of typing errors, using the redundancy associated with natural l