There is a very fine software, especially useful if you're working with ANSI
or ISO 8858 character standards (I don't believe it yet supports unicode)
called "concordance". The evaluation package is downloadable at:
http://www.rjcw.freeserve.co.uk/ and
http://www.rjcw.freeserve.co.uk/features.htm
The full package, with online registration, costs $89 (U.S. dollars) for a
single copy. The evaluation copy is completely functional, and works for 30
days, after which registration is required. One powerful feature is to sort
lexemes through an "end of word" sort, which is ideal for morphemic
analysis. (I was speaking recently with my former professor of Romance
Philology, GIancarlo Breschi, UniFi, and he also had nothing but encomies
for the program. I might add that for advanced character necessities, it is
possible to set both font (such as Arial MS Unicode, a 2.0 version - no 3.0
level fonts are as yet available to the best of my knowledge), but in such a
case, especially with character such as [ç], there are some ordering bugs
(in effect, [ç] is ordered after [z], likely due to the program's limit in
basic numeric series ordering - such problems don't occur in Office2000
however, which may be reutilized for post processing reordering). These
problems should disappear once the program is upgraded to handle both
Unicode and language ordering standards (my needs are quite unique however,
since I'm dealing with medieval Judeo-Italian texts).
Another program, which is freeware and provides a diversity of functions
including concordances, is "The Linguist's Shoebox", available through the
Summer Institute of Linguistics . This program, which comes with ample
documentation, requires a not too difficult format for proper
lexico-morpho-syntactic tagging. It is more difficult to set up, and takes
some planning in text division, but can render great results with some
patience. It also has parsing capabilities, and if I'm not mistaken, can
support Unicode.
Download these, and let me know what you think.
Cordiali saluti,
Seth Jerchower
Librarian, Center for Judaic Studies
University of Pennsylvania
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Cervigni
Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 9:12 PM
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Subject: Re: software for concordance
Dear Colleagues:
I am planning to do an electronic concordance of a fairly short text
(ca. 50 pages) that is divided into chapters and subchapters (the numbers
are in the text itself).
Does anyone have some first-hand experience with a software that can
accomplish such a task without requiring an advanced degree in computer
science?
I appreciate your suggestions.
Dino S. Cervigni
Annali d'Italianistica
UNC-CH, CB # 3170
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3170
http://metalab.unc.edu/annali/
fax: (919) 962 5457
home (919) 942 3582
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