Re: [Corpora-List] accented characters in webcorp

From: Antoinette Renouf (ant@rdues.liv.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Nov 12 2002 - 17:05:52 MET

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    Dear Tony
    The latest version of WebCorp, which has been made available for
    beta-testing to all ICAME members including yourself, generates
    accented output with no trouble. For `né', it retrieves hundreds of
    instances (before it times out). Perhaps you are using the earlier
    version?
    Antoinette

    p.s. queries about the system can also be sent to the `Feedback' facility
    on WebCorp.

    > From: "Tony Berber Sardinha" <tony4@uol.com.br>
    > To: "corpora list - messages to list" <CORPORA@hd.uib.no>
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    > Dear list members
    >
    > Does anyone know how to search for words with accented characters on WebCorp
    > (http://www.webcorp.org.uk/)?
    >
    > I wanted to get a concordance for "né". Google reports about 2,630,000
    > occurrences; WebCorp, on the other hand, returns just 6 lines. When I typed
    > "n&eacute;" (without the quotes), it returned just 2 occurrences.
    >
    > thanks ahead
    >
    > cheers
    > tony.
    > -------------------------------------
    > Dr Tony Berber Sardinha
    > LAEL, PUC/SP
    > (Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
    > tony4@uol.com.br
    > http://lael.pucsp.br/~tony
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