[Corpora-List] Grep for Windows

[Adam Kilgarriff]

Mark,

 

Another option is to accept that the command line is an alien concept to
anyone who is not a registered geek, and to teach regexps in a corpus query
tool. 

 

I have a couple of beginner exercises at
http://www.lexmasterclass.com/exercises/regex/index.html , which are always
fun to teach - faces get overwhelmed by looks of intense concentration and
you can hear the brain-cogs grinding.  

 

Not sure if your tool does full perl regexps-  Sketch Engine does, and we'd
be happy to load your corpora.  Large corpora are already loaded for quite a
few languages, more languages to follow, plus facilities to upload and
install your own corpora (large or small) on our server, plus WebBootCaT for
instant web corpora.  See http://www.sketchengine.co.uk
<http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/>  (self-registration for free trial account)

 

Not really what you were looking for, but maybe an interesting alternative,

 

Adam

 

 

 

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

 

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Web: davies-linguistics.byu.edu

 

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