We're all assuming that you need something that runs under Windows. If
you're using Macs, try the freeware Conc 1.76
<http://www.sil.org/computing/conc/>. On the new G3s with a high
allocation of RAM (in the neighborhood of 10,000 K), Conc can index a
200,000-word corpus in about 30 seconds. It's not nearly as versatile as
WordSmith Tools, but it is easy to use, and it is free.
--SJ Stauffer
<stauffes@gusun.georgetown.edu>
>I can only repeat Dr Berber Sardinha's reply to Stephane Butheau,
>WordSmith Tools. It is not free, but is dirt cheap for its capabilities.
>Anything else would be limiting. In addition you have the manuel in Word
>format to help you through. Highly recommended.
>Otherwise look at Mike Scott's website for MicroConcord. Insufficient for
>research but fine for students. Mike's site is:
>
>http://www.liv.ac.uk/~ms2928/homepage.html
>
>Would be interested to know more about your corpus as I shall shortly be
>starting on one in spinal injuries.
>
>Best wishes
>
>Geoffrey
>williams@ensinfo.univ-nantes.fr
>
>Faculte des Sciences et des Techniques
>University of Nantes
>France
>
>On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, David Carlson wrote:
>
>> I am new to the CORPORA discussion list and also to working with corpora.
>> I'm looking for information on finding a good concordancing program.
>> I am collecting my own corpus of medical English texts, and I would like to
>> use concordancing as a tool for teaching English as a Second Language..
>>Could
>> anyone give me some tips on finding an easy-to-use, inexpensive (or free?)
>> concordancer....
>> Thanks.
>> Dave Carlson
>> carlson@po.mdu.ac.jp
>> JAPAN
>>
>>
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