[Corpora-List] concordance program for large files

[Chris Tribble]

Emiliano - don't want to start a big debate re WST and BNC, but in this part
of the world both version 4 and 5 run searches, index building and all other
functions on BNC World.  I have two versions of this on my PC  - one with
all tags stripped out and they both work fine.  I've not tried it on the
text of the XML edition - this may be a problem - but AntConc (which I use
and recommend to students as an excellent free starter) won't either.  My
experience with AntConc is also that it has major problems with Unicode text
and larger files.

So I'd say NOT a waste of money - especially if, like me, you're not a Unix
/ Perl user.  OK, I know I should be, but there are so many learning curves
I want to climb...
 
Best

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: corpora-bounces at uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces at uib.no] 
> On Behalf Of Emiliano Guevara
> Sent: 03 September 2008 08:41
> To: Corpora List
> Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] concordance program for large files
> Importance: High
> 
> Don't waste money:
> 
> Laurence Anthony's AntConc is free, multiplatform, and does 
> most of what other commercial packages do (freq. lists, 
> concordancing, collocates, keywords).
> 
> http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/antconc_index.html
> 
> My students use AntConc with corpora as big as 5M words, but 
> it starts feeling sluggish over 3M words.
> 
> However, all the current stand-alone programs suffer this problem.
> Someone in this thread just said that WSTools can manage 
> "with the whole of BNC", but it is not true. At least not in 
> this part of the world....
> 
> E.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sep 3, 2008, at 02:10 AM, jaime.hunt at studentmail.newcastle.edu.au
> wrote:
> 
> > I was just wondering if you know of a good concordance program that 
> > deals with large files of over 1 million words that I might 
> be able to 
> > use for my research. Has anyone had any experience with one?
> > There are a few free ones on the internet, but they often 
> don't deal 
> > with really large files.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jaime
> 
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