A Strategy for Syntax Search

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This is not a tutorial on any of the Syntax methods but merely advice as how to go about constructing a syntax query.

This description will tend to use the two simplest, and complete, Clause Visualizations schemes; namely Cascadia and Opentext.

Have a very good idea of the problem you are trying to solve

A problem involving relationships between words and their syntactical/semantic use is ideal for this type of query. A problem that involves simple relationships between words, or usage of words, is best addressed by a Morphological text query.

Construct a text query that will be your Control

It should capture all possible results but will also capture false positives because relationships are expressed by Proximity (distance). Be sure you have some valid results before you start the syntax query.

Examine the Clause Analysis

Word level detail

Unordered Group

Run the query

Now you should be getting valid results from your query, comparing them to the control set and begin fine tuning your query to eliminate spurious hits.

Is it complete enough?

Eventually you have to decide that the query is as good as it can be, because there is no guarantee any query will be 100% complete. At that point you have to manually determine what results are missing.