Search by Language

You can use the search query builder's Language term to find documents based on which languages they contain.

In this article, we'll cover how to search by language and how to view a language's prevalence in a document.

Search documents by language

To do search documents by language:

  1. Go to Project Search
  2. Drag-and-drop or select the Language search term in the query builder.
  3. Select the blank field, and a dropdown list of languages appears.
    enter language search term.png
  4. Select a language.
  5. [Optional] Select Primary to return documents where the language specified in the search is the language with the highest percentage of text on that document. 

To search for two or more languages, add an instance of the Language search term to the query for each language. 

Note

Everlaw will only index the top three language results per document. If a document contains large sections in English, Chinese, and Korean, but only a few words in Japanese, it may not appear among search results if you search for documents in Japanese.

View language prevalence in a document

You can also customize your results table to see the different proportions of languages in each document. To do this:

  1. Open the results table for the search.
  2. Check for a Language column in the table.
    If it doesn't exist, you can add it using the table's view options.
    Each row in the column displays the document's language and the prevalence of that language in the document.screenshot of a results table with a Lanuage column

Note

The Languages column only shows the languages included in the table's underlying search. For example, if you searched for “English” and “French”, the breakdown might show 90% English and 5% French.  The remaining 5% is another language(s). You can further filter on languages using the column's filter button.