Search filters and options

The search page by default will conduct searches on all data in APLS. You can limit your search to a selection of participants and/or transcripts using the participants and transcripts filters.

You can also specify additional match and display options for your search using the search options.

On this page
  1. Participants filter
  2. Transcripts filter
  3. Search options

Participants filter

The participants filter is the first option displayed on the search page.

There are two ways to select participants for this filter on the search page:

  • Clicking Participants will take you to the participants page. From this page, click the checkboxes for all participants you would like to include in your search and then click the Layered Search button to return to the search page. If you specify a filter for the participants page and don’t click any checkboxes, then it will select all participants in the filter. More information about the participants page can be found on the Browsing participants documentation page.
  • You can also upload a .csv file containing participant codes to the participants filter by clicking the Choose File button.
    • For the .csv upload filter to work, participant codes must be in the first column of the .csv. The filter will select all valid participant codes in the first column. The column does not need to have a header name and the column can contain rows that aren’t valid participant codes. Additionally, the .csv upload option treats multiple rows of the same participant code as if they were a single row. If there is an error in the column, it will be ignored (e.g., if the column contains CB96 instead of CB06, the filter will simply ignore CB96 because it is not a valid participant code).
  1. Go to the participants page.
  2. Click the checkboxes for CB01, CB05, and CB06.
  3. Click the Export Attributes button at the top of the page and then click Export Attributes on the Export participant data page to download the participants.csv file.
    1. You can learn more about the options of the Export participant data page on the Browsing participants documentation page.
  4. Go to the search page.
  5. Click Choose File in the Participants filter tab and select the participants.csv file.

Transcripts filter

The transcripts filter is located beneath the participants filter.

Clicking Transcripts will take you to the transcripts page. From this page, click the checkboxes for all transcripts you would like to include in your search and then click the Layered Search button to return to the search page. More information about the transcripts page can be found on the Browsing transcripts documentation page.

If you’ve selected participants for the participants filter, only the transcripts for those participants will be displayed when using the transcripts filter. Additionally, if you select transcripts and then select participants, your transcripts filter will be overwritten.

Search options

Below the pattern input fields are checkboxes that let you set certain match parameters for your search. In order, these options are:

  • Only include ‘Main speaker’ participants.
    • This restricts the search to only include matches from ‘Main speaker’ participants, excluding matches from interviewers and bystanders.
  • Only match words that are aligned.
    • This checkbox restricts your search to only match tokens that have been force-aligned, ignoring any tokens that have not been force-aligned yet.
  • Only one match per transcript.
    • This checkbox restricts the search results to one match per transcript, allowing you to identify transcripts that contain a given pattern without listing all instances of that pattern in the transcript.
  • Exclude utterances with more than n% overlap
    • This checkbox allows you to excluding overlapping speech, when multiple speakers are talking at once.
    • By default, 5% overlap counts as simultaneous speech for exclusion. However this threshold can be adjusted using the given checkbox.
  • No matches, only a summary of results
    • This checkbox will prevent the search from automatically opening a page displaying the results (although results can still be viewed by clicking on Display results underneath the search bar)