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What is BlackLab?

BlackLab is a corpus retrieval engine built on top of Apache Lucene. It allows fast, complex searches with accurate hit highlighting on large, tagged and annotated, bodies of text. It was developed at the Institute of Dutch Lexicology (INL) to provide a fast and feature-rich search interface on our historical and contemporary text corpora.

BlackLab is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

More information:

• List of features
• Try an online demo
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Build and test it yourself (also describes how to get API reference documentation)
• Follow @BlackLabINL on Twitter!
• For technical questions, contact Jan Niestadt ([email protected])