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<p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0cm'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Mark,</span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>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. </span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I have a
couple of beginner exercises at <a
href="http://www.lexmasterclass.com/exercises/regex/index.html">http://www.lexmasterclass.com/exercises/regex/index.html</a>
, which are always fun to teach – faces get overwhelmed by looks of
intense concentration and you can hear the brain-cogs grinding. </span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>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 <a href="http://www.sketchengine.co.uk/">http://www.sketchengine.co.uk</a>
(self-registration for free trial account)</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0cm'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Not
really what you were looking for, but maybe an interesting alternative,</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Mark Davies wrote:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>This next semester, I'd
like to have the students in my Corpus</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Linguistics class learn
to use Grep tools for searching large corpora. I</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>know there's many great,
fast Unix tools, but these students will be</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>using Windows machines.
If possible, the program would have the</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>following features:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>-- Fast, since they'll be
working with fairly large corpora (100 million</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>words and more)</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>-- Obviously, full
regular expressions capability</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>-- Not run under Cygwin
or a similar program, but rather as a native</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Windows app</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I've already looked at
PowerGrep, V-Grep, and TextPad, but none of these</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>are adequate. Any other
suggestions? Thanks in advance.</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Mark Davies</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>============================================</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Mark Davies</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Professor of (Corpus)
Linguistics</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Brigham</span></font> Young
University</p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>(phone) 801-422-9168 /
(fax) 801-422-0906</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Web:
davies-linguistics.byu.edu</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>** Corpus design and use
// Linguistic databases **</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>** Historical linguistics
// Language variation **</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>** English, Spanish, and
Portuguese **</span></font></p>
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