Responses re. free concordancer

Quentin Grant Allan (qgallan@hkucc.hku.hk)
Fri, 18 Oct 1996 18:14:25 +0800

Greetings all,

And many thanks on behalf of John Wilson to everyone who contributed
suggestions. I've collected them here in case anyone else is interested.

Regards,

Quentin Allan
Teachers of English Language Education Centre
Dept. of Curriculum Studies
University of Hong Kong

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Reply #1

In case you don't have a Sparcstation in your classroom...

For DOS

TACT from the Centre for Computing in the Humanities in Toronto.
Good facilities, but only useful for corpora upto about 1 million
words. Their WWW URL is:
http://www.cch.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/cch/tact.html

For Mac

There's something called Free Text Browser which is available via
ICAME. Not too limited on corpus size as far as I know.
I think it's available at;
http://nora.hd.uib.no/

From:

Alex Collier, email: acollier@liverpool.ac.uk
RDUES, Dept of English, phone: +44 151 794 2287
University of Liverpool, fax: +44 151 794 2298
Liverpool L69 3BX
England

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Reply # 2

Yes, I know one. You could get it for free (only for research
purposes, of course). It is the IMS Corpus Workbench (developed by
O. Christ and me at the University of Stuttgart), which runs under
SunOS 4.1.x, Solaris 2.x and Linux. Contact Oliver Christ,
oli@ims.uni-stuttgart.de, for further information.

Best,

Max

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Reply # 3

try to search for Xconcord. I don't know where I picked it up. However, I don't use it, so I can't say very much.

THe (free) program I use is the IMS corpus workbench. It is for free, but you have ti sign an agreement. After that, you get the information for ftp.

look at: http://www2.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~oli/CorpusToolbox/

it is a very powerfull concordancer. You can use aligned corpora, for example.

for more information, contact Oliver Christ: oli@IMS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE

He is very helpfuf in giving you all the information you want.

succes!

regards,

Marc marc@farm.rug.nl

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Reply # 4

LDC Online at http://www.ldc.upenn.edu provides concordance retrieval on BROWN corpus and other newswire text corpora such as New York times, Wall Street Journal, LA times etc. Students can use it from the Web. It is free for anyone doing the retrieval on BROWN corpus, All others is free for LDC members.

Best Wishes

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Reply # 5

One of my "Extended text find" programs is free for EDUCATIONAL USE.

Corpus Wizard for Win16 (current version: 0.31)[Free for Educational Use] (To find words and output in KWIC format.) [Instructors/Teachers must share the expences to develop...] Corpus Wizard Plus! (Win16: This is a dll to be used with Corpus Wizard forWin16) (To sort KWIC concordance, count collocates,...) [This is not free, but registration fee is very cheap.] Note: This program is archived with Corpus Wizard for Win16 English message edition. Corpus Wizard for Win32 (current version: 0.33) [This is not free, but registration fee is cheap.]

You can get these programs from my Home Page. http://www2d.meshnet.or.jp/~htakashi/

If you need Japanese Message Version, pleae access to

http://www2d.meshnet.or.jp/~htakashi/indexj.html

From: HAMAGUCHI Takashi(KOBE, Japan)

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Reply # 6

If you are content with a mere demonstration of the uses to which concordances can be put, perhaps my program (for PCs only) MONKEY will do. It is at once a random text generator, an on-screen concordance, and a (very very) fast text retrieval programs.

You can download it by anonymous ftp to garbo.uwasa.fi (the University of Vaasa in Finland) where it resides in pc/linguistics/monkey00.zip

From: j.guy@trl.OZ.AU (Jacques Guy)

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Reply # 7

There is a lot of software, for Mac, DOS, Unix etc. at the Summer Institute of Linguistics, http://www.sil.org/computing/sil_computing.html

I can recommend the Concordancer for Macintosh, which is free, simple and efficient. I don't know what the stuff for PCs is like as I don't use them much. So far as I know, a lot of the SIL stuff is free, but I haven't looked at all the details for stuff that I can't use, as you can imagine.

Hope this helps, Naomi

From: Naomi Hallan <nhallan@pop2.restena.lu

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Reply # 8

I would say John Wilson could use TACT. I've used it in teaching and it works fine. The software itself is free. The TACT Manual is going to be published soon by: Modern Language Association of America 10 Astor Place New York, NY 10003 USA if I recall rightly it costs $ 50.- The program itself you can download via ftp: epas.utoronto.ca login as anonymous using your Internet or Bitnet address as password. The you move into /pub/cch/ with the 'cd' command. You might have to look through a bit using the 'dir' command to find a directory called 'tact'. The file type has to be set on binary and then you load down the various files.

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