[Corpora-List] Grep for Windows

[Chris Jordan]

Hey guys,

While Martin's suggest sounds good I doubt that your faculty /  
department will allow it as it introduces a huge security issue. If  
the lab that you are using is reasonably secure and you trust your  
students (cough) then I suppose it is alright but the idea still  
makes me cringe a little.

Mark, why not just bite the bullet and teach them some Perl? By your  
description it sounds like you are just interested in teaching your  
students how to use regular expressions to search a corpus. You can  
even provide them with some starting code that reads in the corpus  
for them. Besides, having Perl on the old CV looks a lot better than  
GREP for students.

Chris Jordan
Computer Science PhD Candidate
Dalhousie University
chris.jordan at acm.org
www.chrisjordan.ca

"Where is the life we have lost in the living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
                                             --from T.S. Eliot's "The  
Rock"




On 9-Jan-07, at 6:52 AM, Martin Wynne wrote:

> Another option would be to give all the students a free linux boot  
> disk, such as the Ubuntu one (http://www.ubuntu.com/). They  could  
> boot their computers off the disk, run linux, use all the unix  
> utilities and access local and (if all goes well) network drives.
>
> Martin
>
> Mark Davies wrote:
>> This next semester, I'd like to have the students in my Corpus
>> Linguistics class learn to use Grep tools for searching large  
>> corpora. I
>> know there's many great, fast Unix tools, but these students will be
>> using Windows machines. If possible, the program would have the
>> following features:
>>
>> -- Fast, since they'll be working with fairly large corpora (100  
>> million
>> words and more)
>> -- Obviously, full regular expressions capability
>> -- Not run under Cygwin or a similar program, but rather as a native
>> Windows app
>>
>> I've already looked at PowerGrep, V-Grep, and TextPad, but none of  
>> these
>> are adequate. Any other suggestions? Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Mark Davies
>>
>> ============================================
>> Mark Davies
>> Professor of (Corpus) Linguistics
>> Brigham Young University
>> (phone) 801-422-9168 / (fax) 801-422-0906
>> Web: davies-linguistics.byu.edu
>>
>> ** Corpus design and use // Linguistic databases **
>> ** Historical linguistics // Language variation **
>> ** English, Spanish, and Portuguese **
>> ============================================
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> -- 
> Martin Wynne
> Head of the Oxford Text Archive and
> AHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics
>
> Oxford University Computing Services
> 13 Banbury Road
> Oxford
> UK - OX2 6NN
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> Fax: +44 1865 273275
> martin.wynne at oucs.ox.ac.uk
>
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