Nicholas,
In response to your query to CORPORA list about concordancers ...
about a month ago, Daniel Wiechmann posted a message noting that
Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory journal current issue includes
his paper reviewing 10 rival concordancers;
and I followed up to say Corpora journal first issue includes our paper
comparing 4 concordancers, focussing on how they handle Arabic.
These might be worth including in your survey!
regards
Eric Atwell, Leeds University
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Eric Atwell wrote:
> By coincidence, there is also a review of concordancers applied to
> Arabic texts in
>
> Roberts, Andrew; Al-Sulaiti, Latifa; and Atwell, Eric. 2006.
> aConCorde: Towards an Open-Source, Extendable Concordancer for Arabic.
> To appear in issue 1.1 of the new journal CORPORA, see
> http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/journals/content.aspx?pageId=1&journalId=12505
>
> We compare Arabic concordance via "market leaders" MonoConc, Wordsmith, and
> Xaira with aConCorde, our free open-source concordancer; for more
> details see http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabic
>
> - naturally, I would encourage you to use aConCorde!
> (and to subscribe to CORPORA :-)
>
>
> Eric Atwell, Leeds University
>
>
> On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Daniel Wiechmann wrote:
>
>> There is an overview of current concordancers in the latest issue of Corpus
>> Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
>> http://www.degruyter.de/rs/384_7546_DEU_h.htm
>>
>> A couple of programs tested there meet the required criteria.
>> (In case you don't have access to this resource, I would be happy to
>> provide you with a prefinal draft of this article.)
>>
>> best,
>> Daniel Wiechmann
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: JGnjbbr@aol.com
>> To: corpora@uib.no
>> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 4:51 AM
>> Subject: [Corpora-List] Concordancer for Arabic
>>
>>
>>
>> I would like to hear from anyone about the availability of a reliable and
>> friendly concordancer for Arabic. Thanks.
>>
>> Georgette Jabbour
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
-- Eric Atwell, Senior Lecturer, Language research group, School of Computing, Faculty of Engineering, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT, England TEL: +44-113-3435430 FAX: +44-113-3435468 http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric
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