[Corpora-List] Customisable Concordancer for ESP (Law) Learners?

From: nigel bruce (njbruce@hkucc.hku.hk)
Date: Thu Jan 25 2007 - 10:08:42 MET

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    I am building and refining a corpus and Vocabulary research Tools for
    an English for Law programme in an ESL-medium university.
    We have a basic set of tools that will concordance & do frequency
    analysis, differentiating general from academic/legal terms.
    We want to go to the next level and develop a more powerful set of
    tools - and our students are the researchers targeted to use the
    tools & database.

    I wonder if anyone can recommend a Concordancer that
    1. is powerful enough to speedily sort a 1 million-word corpus by 3
    words to the left or right (our main new requirement)
    2. allows the user to customise the interface, add features, and
    select/delete unwanted features
    Expense is not an issue if it can permit the above. If anyone can
    propose search functions that they have found especially useful for
    learners, I'm very interested in hearing new ideas.

    I work with ESL Law students and legal corpora - if anyone has
    experience of using corpora in ESL higher ed., I'd like to exchange
    ideas and experiences.

    Nigel Bruce

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