RE: [Corpora-List] Grep for Windows

From: Adam Kilgarriff (adam@lexmasterclass.com)
Date: Tue Jan 09 2007 - 19:12:22 MET

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    Mark,

     

    Another option is to accept that the command line is an alien concept to
    anyone who is not a registered geek, and to teach regexps in a corpus query
    tool.

     

    I have a couple of beginner exercises at
    http://www.lexmasterclass.com/exercises/regex/index.html , which are always
    fun to teach - faces get overwhelmed by looks of intense concentration and
    you can hear the brain-cogs grinding.

     

    Not sure if your tool does full perl regexps- Sketch Engine does, and we'd
    be happy to load your corpora. Large corpora are already loaded for quite a
    few languages, more languages to follow, plus facilities to upload and
    install your own corpora (large or small) on our server, plus WebBootCaT for
    instant web corpora. See http://www.sketchengine.co.uk
    <http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/> (self-registration for free trial account)

     

    Not really what you were looking for, but maybe an interesting alternative,

     

    Adam

     

     

     

    Mark Davies wrote:

    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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