Fast lookup CHnell

CHnell searches for a word or a phrase in a language pair and returns bilingual segments taken from official sources. Set the source and target languages at the top of the screen. Enter your term in the ‘Search for a word, an expression, a term’ field, then click the ‘Search’ button. The Enter key does not start the search.

1. Open Fast lookup from the home page: the CHnell screen appears with two language lists.
2. Set the source and target languages. The swap button between the two lists switches them.
3. Enter your term in the Search for a word, an expression, a term field.
4. Click the Search button: the Enter key does not start the search.
5. Read the results header: it shows the term searched, the language and the number of results found.
6. Browse the aligned segments, source on the left and target on the right, with the term highlighted in each.

Below the search field, CHnell displays ‘Supported search operators’, followed by the three supported operators: straight quotation marks, the hyphen and the word ‘or’. An information icon next to this line gives the details in the app. You type the operators directly in the search field, before you click ‘Search’.

1. Open ‘Fast lookup’ and find the Supported search operators line below the search field.
2. Hover over or click the information icon next to this line to read the exact syntax in the app.
3. Type your query with the operator you need directly in the search field.
4. Click Search to run the search, then check the number of results shown in the header.
5. If the query is too broad, add an operator or use the domain and source filters.

CHnell classifies its segments by legal domain and by source. Before you search, the collapsible ‘Advanced search’ block lets you restrict the resource type. It also lets you tick one or more of the 30 available domains, from company law and arbitration to taxation. On the results page, the ‘Filters’ panel repeats these criteria and adds a selection of sources.

1. On the CHnell screen, expand the Advanced search block above the search field.
2. Set Resource type to limit the search to one type of resource.
3. Open Domains and tick the domains you need: the list has 30, from banking law to patent law.
4. Run the search with the ‘Search’ button.
5. On the results page, expand the Filters panel to adjust the same criteria without entering everything again.
6. Use Select sources in this panel to keep only certain sources, for example federal texts.

In ‘Advanced search’, the ‘Resource type’ filter offers three values: ‘All resources’, ‘Shared resources’ and ‘Own resources’. Shared resources are the text collections available to all CHnell users. Own resources are those linked to your organisation. The filter therefore lets you search either everywhere or only in your organisation's own material.

1. Expand Advanced search on the CHnell screen.
2. Open the Resource type filter and read the three values offered.
3. Choose All resources to search both the shared collections and your organisation's own collections.
4. Choose Shared resources to keep only the shared collections, which are useful for citing official usage.
5. Choose Own resources to search only the resources specific to your organisation.
6. Run the search with ‘Search’ and check the number of results, which varies widely with this filter.

Each CHnell result is an aligned segment: the source sentence on the left and its translation on the right, with the searched term highlighted in both. The legal domain appears above it in capitals, and the exact source of the text below it, for example a federal compilation or an authority's website. The ‘Show in context’ link opens the segment in its original setting, so you can check that it really matches your case.

1. Run a search in CHnell and browse the list of aligned segments.
2. Find the highlighted term in the source sentence and in the target sentence: this is the match to assess.
3. Read the domain label in capitals above the segment to check that it belongs to the right field of law.
4. Read the source line below the segment: it names the original text and the dataset it comes from.
5. Click Show in context to open the segment in its full context.
6. Click Show more results at the bottom of the list to load more segments.