[Corpora-List] Looking at concordances

Mon Jun 4 18:07:56 UTC 2007

Dear Benedicte, Martin and others

That paper, mentioned in the post below, is also incidentally available 
in English, and waiting to be published. I have not gone beyond the 
planning stages described there; also, my interests were, and still are, 
centred on how people concordance stuff (what options they choose in 
relation to a task etc.) I have been building an online tool for this, 
work was stalled for some time, but I hope I am making progress again :)

Anyone interested in the paper mentioned, and perhaps another one, where 
I sum-up some basic statistics from the previous version of my online 
PICLE concordancing facility, is welcome to contact me and I can supply 
either/both.

Best wishes,

Przemek

Pincemin wrote (2007-06-04 16:25):
> Martin Wynne a écrit :
> > Is anyone aware of any research that has been done on how people 
> look at
> > concordances? I'm interested in experimental research on what users do
> > when they look at concordance lines, from the point of view of their
> > behaviour, gaze, and any psychological aspects. References to usability
> > studies on concordancer software would be also be interesting.
> >
> > I'm thinking of putting together a proposal for an investigation in
> > collaboration with psychologists and ethnographers into what we do when
> > we look at concordances, and so I need to be aware of existing work.
> >
> > I'll be happy to post a summary of results to the list.
> >
>
>
> Martin,
>
> I'm very interested in concordances uses, too. But so far I have 
> published articles (in french) only about the nature of concordance 
> and its historical background :
> Pincemin Bénédicte (2006) - « Concordances et concordanciers -De l'art 
> du bon KWAC », Actes du Colloque international Corpus en Lettres et 
> Sciences sociales : des documents numériques à l'interprétation, Albi, 
> 10-14 juillet 2006, Texto! [en ligne http://www.revue-texto.net/ ISSN 
> 1773-0120], juin 2006, vol. XI, n°2.
> Pincemin Bénédicte, Issac Fabrice, Chanove Marc, Mathieu-Colas Michel 
> (2006) - « Concordanciers : thème et variations », Actes des 8es 
> Journées internationales d'Analyse statistique des Données Textuelles 
> (JADT 2006), Jean-Marie Viprey et al. (éds), Besançon : Presses 
> Universitaires de Franche-Comté, ISBN 2.84867130.0, vol. II, pp. 773-784.
> My third article, not written yet, would be on the use of 
> concordancers...
>
> I am involved in a new project called Textometrie, coordinated by 
> Serge Heiden (web site is under construction, I can let you know when 
> it is available if you want). The Textometrie project aims at 
> developping an open-source software (and open-source components) about 
> statistical analysis of textual data, as it is done in France since 
> 1970/1980 and is called "lexicometrie". This includes KWIC outputs. In 
> the project we will then address the definition and the actual uses of 
> concordancers, because we want to take these uses into account, for 
> ergonomical considerations. So I would be very interested to read your 
> work in the project you are preparing with psychologists and 
> ethnographers.
>
> On the corpora list, in 2005, there has been an interesting post on 
> the subject of concordance use (see below) -but when I look at the 
> publication list of Przemek Kaszubski, only one paper seems to be on 
> our topic, and it's in polish (?), and awfully I cannot read polish...
> Kaszubski P. 2006. “Konkordancer internetowy w nauce języka: w stronę 
> optymalizacji.” In: Duszak, A. -- Gajek, E. -- Okulska, U. (eds.) 
> Korpusy w angielsko-polskim językoznawstwie kontrastywnym: teoria i 
> praktyka. Kraków: Universitas, 328-359.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Benedicte Pincemin.
> Research Scientist, Laboratoire ICAR,
> CNRS & ENS-LSH, Université de Lyon, France.
>
> ___________________________________________
> Subject: [Corpora-List] Concordancer user logging
> From: Przemek Kaszubski <przemka at amu.edu.pl>
> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:26:58 +0100
> To: CORPORA at hd.uib.no
>
> Dear All,
>
> In our school we are working on a version of an in-house online 
> concordancer that would log information about each registered user's 
> concordancing session, such as the search type and expression (incl. 
> syntax errors), (re-)sorting options, (sub)corpora selected, wide 
> context viewing etc. I am planning to combine such logs with 
> screen-recording and/or key-logging as well as with some tasks + 
> possibly questionnaire/thinkaloud procedures in order to study: 1) 
> users' effectiveness in concordancing (e.g. in adjusting search type 
> to resolve the task at hand etc.); 2) the concordancer's functionality 
> and ways to improve it.
>
> The precise procedure and research questions of my (quasi?)experiment 
> are yet to be established. However, I would like to ask if anyone 
> would know of similar research based on logging/recording users of 
> concordancers?
>
> I welcome any relevant pointers, suggestions (also for screen 
> recording and key-logging software, concording functions to look for 
> etc.), or comments.
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Przemek
>
>

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