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I need help..
Is there a way to get sentences by typing part of a word? For example I want to browse all sentences in English that contain suffix -ing.
Thanks
I don't think it is possible. Sphinx, search engine we use, are based on indexing words (or stems of words), not their parts.
http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/current.html
> Chapter 5. Searching
Short answer: no.
Long answer: term based indexing just isn't compatible with wildcard searching. There isn't a search engine software that I know of that has this enabled by default or has a sane implementation of it. Though, theoretically, if you know where your search engine keeps the term list and in what format, you can definitely run some sort of regex search or whatever on it, then maybe limit the results to 10 terms or whatever and insert the terms into the search with OR as a separator.
Or you can download the sentences and then use any search tool on them.
how can I download the sentences?
you can download the compressed sentences file from here: http://downloads.tatoeba.org/ex...tences.tar.bz2
Yes. That link, and others, are available from the More/Downloads menu at the top of the page.