LINGUIST List 17.697
Tue Mar 07 2006
Sum: Concordance Programs
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1. Chris
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Concordance Programs
Message 1: Concordance Programs
Date: 06-Mar-2006
From: Chris Coleman <ccolemanuga.edu>
Subject: Concordance Programs
Regarding query: http://linguistlist.org/issues/17/17-599.html#1
Recently I asked the LINGUIST List for advice about free concordance programs. Thanks to those who replied; the most pertinent responses are summarized below:
(1) Maria Giagkou wrote:
Try this link (http://devoted.to/corpora) and click on Software, Tools... on the left menu. It's an extended list on free concordancers.
(2) Elena Bashir wrote:
I have had good experience with a program called ''Simple Concordance Program'', which is free and downloadable from:
http://www.textworld.com/scp
It handles ASCII text files, so you need to change other file types to .txt files. I don't know whether it can yet handle other types of text, e.g. Unicode text.
It is easy to use and quick, and gives lots of the kinds of data you probably want.
(3) Jim Fidelholtz wrote:
...check out the Summer Institute of Linguistics site (should be www.sil.org, but if not, Google it). They have lots of programs for linguists to manipulate text, and, since they are in the Bible-translating business, it would be amazing if they didn't have most of the programs you are looking for. Another source for quick-and-dirty text manipulation programs, which might require a bit of practice to get used to, is the CHILDES site, run at Carnegie Mellon by Brian MacWhinney for the study especially of child language acquisition, but the programs can be used on any plain text. The second site has lots of conversion programs, also, in case, eg, the students turn their work in in Word format, etc. All programs (as far as I know and if you don't want printed manuals in the second case, or a CD/published book in the first case) are free.
(4) Jasper Holmes wrote:
Here at Warwick, we are developing a corpus of student writing (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/celte/bawe/) and we hope to get the funding to build a concordancer based on SketchEngine (http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/) this summer.
You may be interested in our corpus project for itself, but for a concordancer, watch this space. -------------------------------------
Thanks again to all, Chris Coleman
Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis Text/Corpus Linguistics
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