[Corpora-List] Customisable Concordancer for ESP (Law) Learners?

[nigel bruce]

I am building and refining a corpus and Vocabulary research Tools for 
an English for Law programme in an ESL-medium university.
We have a basic set of tools that will concordance & do frequency 
analysis, differentiating general from academic/legal terms.
We want to go to the next level and develop a more powerful set of 
tools - and our students are the researchers targeted to use the 
tools & database.

I wonder if anyone can recommend a Concordancer that
1. is powerful enough to speedily sort a 1 million-word corpus by 3 
words to the left or right (our main new requirement)
2. allows the user to customise the interface, add features, and 
select/delete unwanted features
Expense is not an issue if it can permit the above.  If anyone can 
propose search functions that they have found especially useful for 
learners, I'm very interested in hearing new ideas.

I work with ESL Law students and legal corpora - if anyone has 
experience of using corpora in ESL higher ed., I'd like to exchange 
ideas and experiences.

Nigel Bruce


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