[Corpora-List] Wordsmith concordance

From: Ramesh Krishnamurthy (ramesh@easynet.co.uk)
Date: Wed Dec 18 2002 - 19:14:38 MET

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    Dear Anne

    I too suspect that a technical problem in text selection or tags/tabs
    is the most likely cause.
    But if these are not involved, check the concordance again. Are the lines
    exact duplicates? If not, it could be genuine repetition (especially in spoken
    texts). Lexical repetition is an under-reported linguistic phenomenon, but is
    frequently noticed in corpus collocation studies.

    Ramesh

    Ramesh Krishnamurthy
    Hon. Res. Fellow, Univ. of Birmingham
    Consultant, Cobuild and Bank of English Corpus

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    Does anyone else get a lot of duplicated entries when doing a
    concordance in Wordsmith?

    Not sure if this is a bug or we are doing something wrong...

    Anne Harrap
    Languages Centre Documentalist
    School of Languages
    Oxford Brookes University
    Oxford (UK)
    Tel: +44 865 483723
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