[Corpora-List] Questions about collocations and collocation extraction tools

[Eric Atwell]

Nicholas,

In response to your query to CORPORA list about concordancers ...
about a month ago, Daniel Wiechmann posted a message noting that 
Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory journal current issue includes 
his paper reviewing 10 rival concordancers;
and I followed up to say Corpora journal first issue includes our paper 
comparing 4 concordancers, focussing on how they handle Arabic. 
These might be worth including in your survey!

regards

Eric Atwell, Leeds University


On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Eric Atwell wrote:

> By coincidence, there is also a review of concordancers applied to
> Arabic texts in
>
> Roberts, Andrew; Al-Sulaiti, Latifa; and Atwell, Eric. 2006.
> aConCorde: Towards an Open-Source, Extendable Concordancer for Arabic.
> To appear in issue 1.1 of the new journal CORPORA, see
> http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/journals/content.aspx?pageId=1&journalId=12505
>
> We compare Arabic concordance via "market leaders" MonoConc, Wordsmith, and 
> Xaira with aConCorde, our free open-source concordancer; for more
> details see http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabic
>
> - naturally, I would encourage you to use aConCorde!
> (and to subscribe to CORPORA :-)
>
>
> Eric Atwell, Leeds University
>
>
> On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Daniel Wiechmann wrote:
>
>> There is an overview of current concordancers in the latest issue of Corpus 
>> Linguistics and Linguistic Theory
>> http://www.degruyter.de/rs/384_7546_DEU_h.htm
>> 
>> A couple of programs tested there meet the required criteria.
>> (In case you don't have access to this resource, I would be happy to 
>> provide you with a prefinal draft of this article.)
>> 
>> best,
>> Daniel Wiechmann
>>
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: JGnjbbr at aol.com
>>  To: corpora at uib.no
>>  Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 4:51 AM
>>  Subject: [Corpora-List] Concordancer for Arabic
>> 
>> 
>>
>>  I would like to hear from anyone about the availability of a reliable and 
>> friendly concordancer for Arabic. Thanks.
>>
>>  Georgette Jabbour
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>
>

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