Collocations are words that frequently occur together.

To search for collocations, you need to specify a keyword and a collocate.

The keyword is the word for which you need to find the most frequent word combinations. You could either specify a concrete lemma or word form, or set the desired grammatical or semantic features. You can also use the wildcard * to search for all keywords.

The collocate is a word that forms a collocation together with the keyword. You can specify a lemma, a word form, or a combination of grammatical or semantic features, or use the wildcard *.

You can set the distance between the key and the collocate (no more than five words). This means that we are looking for collocates that occur more often than by chance from the key at a given distance. If you want to find collocates that precede the word in the sentence, then the distance must be specified as a negative number.

For example, in Russian normally the adjective comes before the noun. To find all adjectives that are associated with the word дерево (“tree”), you should set "дерево" as the keyword in your search query, select the grammatical feature “adjective” for the collocate, and set the distance from -1 to -1.

By default, the search is conducted through preferred tags (in disambiguated texts). In this case, adjacent word matches are excluded, i.e., if the distance between words includes 0 (for example, from -1 to 1), then the distance 0 is excluded from the range of distances between words in the search results.