[Lexicog] Query re "Fiesta" concordance program

[Lou Hohulin]

Rudolph,

I have forwarded your message to John Alsop, the original programmer for the Fiesta and asked him to answer your questions. Several years ago, he showed me a modified software program that would run on systems other than DOS. If I recall correctly, I think it still had the features you are asking about.

Lou

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 12:46:37 -0700 (MST)
 Rudolph C Troike <rtroike at u.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> A. I was interested and pleased a few years ago to see the concordance
> program "Fiesta" developed at SIL, but it was a DOS program and I don't
> know whether it was ever developed further. I'd be interested to know
> about it.
>
> B. Some years ago I worked with Ross McDonald at Georgetown University in
> utilizing the collocational program they developed in conjunction with
> their Russian-English machine translation program on IBM mainframes. It
> had two particularly valuable features:
>
> 	1) one could get frequency listings of words, either
> alphabetically or by frequency, in parallel columns for several (I think
> up to 5) texts, which was useful for comparing texts and looking at effect
> of text type/style/domain on relative frequencies;
>
> 	2) collocations within any text could be listed by descending
> frequency, selecting two-, three-, four-, or five-word combinations, so
> that it was easy inspectionally to find significant and often unexpected
> collocations (weapons of mass destruction, anyone?)
>
> I wonder whether either or both of these functions are available in any
> currently available concordance software? They are something I have often
> wished for.
>
> 	Rudy
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
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