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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear colleagues,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>One of my students in having problems with
ParaConc. Ay help you might give her is sincerely appreciated. I
transcribe her message below</FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT face=Arial> <FONT
size=2>[Quote]</FONT><SPAN lang=EN-US><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT
face="Times New Roman">I’m carrying out a research<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>for my master’s degree, and I’m using <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">ParaConc 269</I> to align 3 parallel texts :
the original text in English and two translations of the same text in
Portuguese. I’ve used start/stop tags, and the segments are indicated by the
segment start and end tags <seg> and </seg>.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I’m having
some difficulties in performing a parallel Search after having aligned the texts
(the option is not even highlighted for use). It is the concordance lines I am
interested in. Sometimes, the option “scan corpus” appears, and then the option
is highlighted. But when I activate “View corpus alignment” to check, the option
“parallel search” disappears again.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT
face="Times New Roman">I wonder if any of you have come across a similar
difficulty, and if so, I would be most grateful if you could help me. I could
send the texts already prepared for the alignment <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(English- Portuguese-Portuguese) if
you write to<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>alvamar @ amcham .com.
br, so that you can see if they look fine to you, and if you are successful in
performing a parallel or advanced search after their alignment.
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Thanking you
all in advance,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Alvamar Helena de
Campos Andrade Lamparelli<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 18pt"><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR"><FONT face="Times New Roman">University of São
Paulo</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">[Unquote]</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P><SPAN
style="mso-ansi-language: PT-BR"><FONT face="Times New Roman">
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stella Tagnin </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>University of São
Paulo</FONT></DIV><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN>
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