[Corpora-List] Re: web concordancing engine

[Hendrik Feddes]

Dear Przemek,

you might like to give Xlex/www a try, which is freely available for
non-commercial purposes.  Xlex/www is a web-based interface to a suite of
Unix/Linux command line tools (tokenizer, index, POS tagger, concordancer,
statistical analysis, etc.).  For password-restricted access, the web
server can be used (e.g. the .htaccess mechanism in the Apache server).

Installation should be particularly straightforward on a PC with any
current Linux distribution.  Of course, access is possible from any WWW
client in the network.  For more information, have a look at
<http://xlex.uni-muenster.de>.  If you'd like to get the distribution,
just drop me a line.

Best, Hendrik.


On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Przemyslaw Kaszubski wrote:

> Dear list members,
>
> I am planning to make a specialised (text-only, untagged) corpus of non-
> copyright material made avilable for my students to use as a project
> writing assistance tool. I do not want to give them the texts but the
> possibility to concordance them online, preferably after entering a
> password. My problem is I am not well versed in web technology or
> programming so I cannot provide an authored tool for the purpose. Are
> there any ready web concordancing tools to be acquired, preferably at no
> cost? Any pointers to relevant sources will be highly appreciated. Also any
> advice as to how best to run a resource of the kind described will be
> welcome. If you think designing a tool like this is a surmountable task for
> someone with basic awk scripting ability, drop me a line of encouragement
> and/or advice.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Przemek Kaszubski
>
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> Dr Przemyslaw Kaszubski
> t: +48 61 8293515
> e: przemka at amu.edu.pl
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