eederavi@cybaswan.UUCP (Farzin Deravi) (03/21/91)
I am looking for software to generate a concordance from an English
text. The text is already in machine readable form (ASCII).
I would prefer a public domain product running under UNIX or DOS.
I have used the Oxford Concordance Programme (OCP) but I feel
there MUST be something better than this out there.
Please let me know if you have any information in this area.
And please (also) write to me directly.
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In article <2407@cybaswan.UUCP>, eederavi@cybaswan.UUCP (Farzin Deravi) writes: > I am looking for software to generate a concordance from an English text. > I would prefer a public domain product running under UNIX or DOS. I have > used the Oxford Concordance Programme but I feel there MUST be something > better than this out there. I wrote a concordance package called Hum while studying at UC Berkeley. Hum is public domain, written in C, and runs on Unix. Having never used OCP, I can't say whether Hum is better or worse, but reports indicate Hum is faster. OCP was written in Fortran, which used to be more widely available than C (interesting how things change). Brian MacWhinney of CMU has ported Hum to DOS. I'd be happy to bundle up the C/Unix version for anybody who wants it. You'll have to compile yourself. I have no control over the DOS version, and don't know about availability or cost. Hum/Unix is free. Bill
koontz@cam.nist.gov (John E. Koontz X5180) (03/30/91)
In article <2407@cybaswan.UUCP>, eederavi@cybaswan.UUCP (Farzin Deravi) writes: > I am looking for software to generate a concordance from an English text. > I would prefer a public domain product running under UNIX or DOS. I have > used the Oxford Concordance Programme but I feel there MUST be something > better than this out there. There is a very good DOS concordance package called TACT, available, from a Canadian university. I've forgotten all the particulars, but if Mr. Deravi will mail me a reminder with an Internet return address, I will look them up and send them to him. The package is menu-driven and has good features for working with garden variety non-ASCII character sets, as well as English. It can do searches with regular expressions, too, which is a very nice feature. The price was $25 US, which is essentially the cost of the manual plus shipping and handling. The package is otherwise public domain (with some restrictions).