Corpora: (Robust and fast) PC concordance programs

[George Demetriou]

Hi Mark,

You may want to look at CorpusBench, a very efficient
commercial software that Longman used to build their
corpora resources. At the time (1994) we used it to build
the BNC with it and I remember it was quite fast for concordances.
The company is called Textware and they are based at Denmark.
Although that version of CorpusBench was for OS/2,
I believe there must be a Windows version now.

Best,

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Mark Davies wrote:
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>
> My question then: are there in fact any **PC-based**, **commercially
> available** programs that can search  100,000,000+ word corpora in a couple
> of seconds (or less)?  I realize that there may be some custom solutions
> that researchers have created, but I need to focus here on
> commercially-available software (or shareware/freeware, if in fact such a
> program existed that meets these specs).
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Mark Davies