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+<div id="intro">
+  <p>This is the alternative KorAP Frontend.</p>
+  <p>The primary goal is to serve as a testbed for the query serialization and for different flavours of user interfaces.</p>
+  <p>Search capabilities are limited to the demo user.</p>
+</div>