[Corpora-List] Looking for beta testers for a concordance program for Mac OS X 10.5

[PF]

I'll be extremely happy to test it!
Thanks whatever!
Pierfranca Forchini

On Jun 26, 2008, at 6:37 PM, Imao Yasuhiro wrote:

> Dear list members,
>
> If you are not a Mac user or not using OS X 10.5 Leopard, please
> ignore this message.  And this message is long, so if you are not
> interested, please ignore this.
>
>
> I'm wondering if there is anyone who uses Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and is
> willing to test a concordance program I'm writing for it.
>
> I'm a graduate student who wants to use corpus analysis for a
> dissertation.  I started learning Ruby about a year ago for text
> analysis and ended up with a GUI program, partly because I couldn't
> find a corpus program for Mac that looks like a Mac program (I'd like
> to know if there is any good one; I just want to do whatever I can do
> on Mac).  This program is written in Ruby+RubyCocoa and only runs on
> Mac OS X 10.5.3 or later.  I saw Python was recommended on this list,
> but because I could find more info in Japanese, I chose Ruby.
>
> The program (I named it CasualConc) is designed for casual use
> (material preparation for teaching, preliminary research, etc., but
> not for serious research) and is still under development.  But it has
> most of the features I wanted to include initially.  It was originally
> designed to work with English, but most of the European languages
> should work fine.  I started to implement East Asian language support,
> but it's still very limited.
>
> Now I'm wondering if there is anyone who is interested in testing it
> and give me some feedback.  I've had a few users around the world and
> got some positive comments, but I'd like to have more.  Other than bug
> reports, I'd like to know the usability of the program, terminology
> used on the program, and accuracy of the results and statistical
> calculations (which I implemented experimentally).  I'd also like to
> have any kind of feedback on the website I created (accuracy/clarity
> of info, terminology, my language, etc.).  My goal is to make this
> easy enough to use even for not-so-tech-savvy language teachers/
> students.
>
> I've only taken one intro corpus linguistics course, so there might be
> many problems with the program (misunderstood concepts, etc.) and the
> site.  Although I don't have much time to make major changes now, if
> there's any feature that should be added, I'll see if I can add it.
> But because I learned Ruby by myself without much programming
> background (I only knew a bit of MS-BASIC and Javascript when I
> started), it's very likely that I can't do much with my very limited
> knowledge.
>
> The program is available at
> http://casualconc.googlepages.com/home
> More detailed information about the program is on the site and on a
> blog linked to the site.
>
> If you are interested, please go to the site, download the program and
> send any feedback to me directly or to the address on the site or
> leave your comment on a discussion board (Google groups) linked to the
> site.  I'd appreciate any kind of comments/feedback.
>
> Thank you,
> Yasu Imao
>
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