Gets a list of annotations that match a particular pattern.

Returns the annotations in the corpus that match the given expression.

getMatchingAnnotations(
  labbcat.url,
  expression,
  page.length = NULL,
  page.number = NULL
)

Arguments

labbcat.url

URL to the LaBB-CAT instance

expression

An expression that determines which annotations match. This must match by either id or layer.id. The expression language is currently not well defined, but is based on JavaScript syntax. e.g.

• id == 'ew_0_456'

• ['ew_2_456', 'ew_2_789', 'ew_2_101112'].includes(id)

• layerId == 'orthography' && !/th[aeiou].+/.test(label)

• graph.id == 'AdaAicheson-01.trs' && layer.id == 'orthography' && start.offset > 10.5

• layer.id == 'utterance' && all('word').includes('ew_0_456')

• layerId = 'utterance' && labels('orthography').includes('foo')

• layerId = 'utterance' && labels('participant').includes('Ada')

page.length

The maximum number of IDs to return, or null to return all

page.number

The zero-based page number to return, or null to return the first page

Value

A list of annotations.

Details

The results can be exhaustive, by omitting page.length and page.number, or they can be a subset (a 'page') of results, by given page.length and page.number values.

See also

countMatchingAnnotations

Examples

if (FALSE) {
## get all topic annotations whose label includes the word 'quake'
quake.topics <- getMatchingAnnotations(
                   labbcat.url, "layer.id == 'topic' && /.*quake.*/.test(label)")
}