The latest version of the NUD*IST software will do that easily, Ricardo -
you can search all or selected interviews for keywords or phrases (with
wildcards, approximation etc if you need it). Results are coded for you and
you can browse them or make a report to save, with each find identified by
doc name and details (you just put those into the document description). You
can select the finds you want and delete others and save to a file with the
context you wish. (You can also go back to the source from any of the finds,
sometimes useful to check context). And if you want to be more subtle, you
can work with the finds, more finely discriminating between them.
The demo is on the QSR website at http://www.qsrinternational.com. Either N6
or NVivo will do the job for you, but if that's all you want to do I'd use
the simpler N6. If you want to know more about it, just email
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Hope that helps
cheers
Lyn
Professor Lyn Richards,
Director, Research Services, QSR.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ricardo Gomez [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, 23 October 2002 8:36 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Text retrieval software
I am working on a project that requires my team to be able to search around
100 interviews for specific keywords and phrases, display them in context,
take decisions about which of those results to save to a file and print
them. In addition, we want to be able to automatically display details of
the interview (name, date, interviewer) at the top of the search results
from that document. The only piece of software we have so far seen that
comes close is RECALL, but it is no longer published. All the other trials
we have looked at (DTSearch, WinMax, Zylab etc etc) are either too
sophisticated and require attention to coding or do not produce the sort of
display formats that we are looking for. If anyone can help, I'd be
extremely grateful. I suspect I'm looking for the Atlantis of text
retrieval software. Thanks.
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