Windows concordance programs
Mr A.P. Berber Sardinha (tony1@liverpool.ac.uk)
Thu, 11 Jul 1996 16:47:37 +0100 (BST)
Just a few comments based on my experience with
the full versions of MicroConcord and WordSmith.
MicroConcord is faster but limited to about 1600
concordance lines. I use it for jobs whose size I know
in advance. The WordSmith concordancing tool is more
complete and has many of the advantages of Windows.
In WSmith you can for example set the size of the
span and then view the collocates that fall within
that exact span, which you can't in MicroConcord.
The collocates window is also more detailed since
it gives you the frequencies of collocates by
their position and not simply the totals for
the left and right collocates.
Another great feature of WSmith concordancer is
the phrase extracting feature (clusters I believe
it's called) which will read a concordance screen
and list the repeated sequences of words in it.
You can set the length of the phrases and their
minimum frequency.
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