Re: [Corpora-List] Grep for Windows

From: radev@umich.edu
Date: Fri Dec 15 2006 - 16:01:24 MET

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    Have you considered using cygwin (a unix shell lookalike) which runs
    under Windows and which has grep?

    >
    > This next semester, I'd like to have the students in my Corpus
    > Linguistics class learn to use Grep tools for searching large corpora. I
    > know there's many great, fast Unix tools, but these students will be
    > using Windows machines. If possible, the program would have the
    > following features:
    >
    > -- Fast, since they'll be working with fairly large corpora (100 million
    > words and more)
    > -- Obviously, full regular expressions capability
    > -- Not run under Cygwin or a similar program, but rather as a native
    > Windows app
    >
    > I've already looked at PowerGrep, V-Grep, and TextPad, but none of these
    > are adequate. Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance.
    >
    > Mark Davies
    >
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    > Mark Davies
    > Professor of (Corpus) Linguistics
    > Brigham Young University
    > (phone) 801-422-9168 / (fax) 801-422-0906
    > Web: davies-linguistics.byu.edu
    >
    > ** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases **
    > ** Historical linguistics // Language variation **
    > ** English, Spanish, and Portuguese **
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Dragomir R. Radev                    Associate Professor
SI, CSE, Ling                     U. Michigan, Ann Arbor 
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~radev         radev@umich.edu

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