Some of the specific authors and works that are still not represented on the database cause just as much amazement among users as the number of texts to which the database does allow access. This new corpus will vastly expand our holdings from the 16th and 17th centuries, as well as adding a few impor- tant works from the 19th and 20th centuries. After reformatting and extensive editing, they are now ready to be added to the database. These include works by Hugo, Gautier, Nerval, Mallarme', Baudelaire, Verlaine, Apollinare, and Camus, among others. In 1988, work began in Chicago to restructure the data so that it would conform to the format of the rest of the texts on the database.
Users can send either one or several requests at a time, following a simple procedure.
We have tested the system extensively during the Spring and Summer of 1991, and have been able to provide results to clients world-wide. The subcorpus of works you want to search. This is specified by date, author, or title. The wordlist construction. This may be a single word, a range of words containing a common root, or instances where two or more words cooccur within a specified range of text.