A while ago someone mentioned doing a KWIC search on the WEB. I tried the
site (lost it now), but couldn't get it to work. It's a great idea,
though, and in princible, I don't see why it should be difficult to do
topic-based or text-type based string searches (e.g., search for a string
in all business reports -- assuming that there is some way to classify text
on the web). Even without this level of sophistication, has someone else
got this kind of search to work? I'm kind of corpus-hungry as you've noticed.
It'd sure be a nice project to build such a site if there isn't one
already.
John
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John Milton -- lcjohn@uxmail.ust.hk
Hong Kong University of Science & Technolgy
Hong Kong