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A concordance gives a list of several words, phrases, or distributed structures along with immediate contexts, from a corpus or text collection..
  1. Corpus-based concordances: English | French | German           Clean Sentences Conc (English)
    • Entry is user's word, phrase or structure
    • Output is all instances of the entry in context throughout a sizeable corpus
    • English corpora include Brown, BNC spoken & written samplers (1,000,000 words) + text collections
    • French corpora include LeMonde, de Maupassant (1,000,000 words) + collections
    • MAJOR UPGRADE July 08 (new algo, single interface, no-chop contexts, user-extractable)
    • MAJOR SPEED-UP July 09 (One-second concordances from main routine)

    + Multi_Concordance Build 05, update 08 + 09, English

    • Input is words, families, or multi-word units; output is multiple for easy comparison
    • Plus task-builder option (worksheet or interactive)
    • New randomizations 08; speed-up through dedicated conc server 09
  2. Text-based concordances: English | French
    • Entry is user's text, output is concordance-linked frequency index for entire text
    • Same-screen right-left collocate sort options      Significant Tune-Up, July 09  + Locus for Step 1 in Homoforms Experiment
  3. Story concordancers: English | French
    • Every word in a full length story is click-linked to concordances from rest of the story + other works by author
  4. Related: Range (En |Fr) and Phrase extractor (Eng, Fr) are types of concordances; Concord Writer is a concord-based writing assistant


Concept for corpus versions by Chris Greavs; PERL code for all concordancers by Tom Cobb, Université du Québec à Montréal