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Is there such a thing as a dataset that can be easily queried for combinations of POS tags and strings? As an example, I may want to search for:
JJ "winter nights"
and have returned a series of sentences which include an adjective followed by the string 'winter nights', such as
cold winter nights
long winter nights
dark winter nights
What's the best tool for the job?
The IMS Corpus Query Processor (CQP) has a query language that can do what you need. There exist other implementations of similar Corpus Query engines, e.g., Poliqarp.
P.S. The query in cqp syntax looks like
[pos="JJ"] [word="winter"] [word="nights"]
Note that the cqp syntax allows for regular expressions (this makes it really powerful!). Below is the query with some sensible wildcards, the first captures all adjective forms, and the last captures both night and nights in one query.
[pos="J.*"] [word="winter"] [word="nights?"]
