Concordance generator for linguists
Thread poster: dimitrispi (X)
dimitrispi (X)
dimitrispi (X)
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May 26, 2018

Hi all,

I'm a postgraduate computer science student, building a piece of software for linguists. The software is a concordance generator that will take as input user-selected text files and provide concordances of words. A concordance is an alphabetical list of the principal words used in a book or body of work, listing every instance of each word with its immediate context. Concordance generators are used for text analysis by teachers of foreign languages, translators, lexic
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Hi all,

I'm a postgraduate computer science student, building a piece of software for linguists. The software is a concordance generator that will take as input user-selected text files and provide concordances of words. A concordance is an alphabetical list of the principal words used in a book or body of work, listing every instance of each word with its immediate context. Concordance generators are used for text analysis by teachers of foreign languages, translators, lexicographers and linguists in general. I need to know if you have used such a tool before and if you would be interested in using it.

I have posted a very brief, online survey (https://www.esurveycreator.com/s/a1929dc) and I would really appreciate it if you could take 1-2 minutes of your time to answer it.

Many thanks,
D.
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Luca Tutino
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Italy
Member (2002)
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The link does not seem to work May 28, 2018

Interesting, but something must be wrong with the link: it just opens https://www.esurveycreator.com/ homepage.

 
Daniela Zambrini
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Italy
Local time: 11:16
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remove bracket May 28, 2018

Hi dimitrispi,
you may want to edit the link in your post: as Luca said, it does not work.

It is sufficient to remove the bracket at the end, though

https://www.esurveycreator.com/s/a1929dc


 
dimitrispi (X)
dimitrispi (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:16
English to Greek
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TOPIC STARTER
Correct link May 28, 2018

Sorry guys. Here's the link: https://www.esurveycreator.com/s/a1929dc

 
Anita Planchon
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Australia
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French to English
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Like Lingee? May 29, 2018

I'm wondering if this is the sort of tool lingee.com is created from?

 
Samuel Murray
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Most CAT tools have it May 29, 2018

dimitrispi wrote:
The software is a concordance generator that will take as input user-selected text files and provide concordances of words.


Most modern CAT tools are capable of doing that, although most CAT tools generate such lists on-the-fly for a single term at a time. How will your tool be different or more useful?


 
dimitrispi (X)
dimitrispi (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:16
English to Greek
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TOPIC STARTER
Features May 29, 2018

Samuel Murray wrote:

dimitrispi wrote:
The software is a concordance generator that will take as input user-selected text files and provide concordances of words.


Most modern CAT tools are capable of doing that, although most CAT tools generate such lists on-the-fly for a single term at a time. How will your tool be different or more useful?


Hi Samuel,

That's why I created this survey. There are quite a few free tools like this one out there. I'm trying to build an improved version and it would be good to know the features that a professional linguist would find useful or feels are missing from existing tools.

@Anita: sort of. Here's an example from an existing tool: http://www.lexically.net/wordsmith/


 
Michael Beijer
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Monolingual or bilingual concordancer? May 30, 2018

Do you intend to create a monolingual (like Wordsmith tools) or bilingual concordancer? The latter is much more useful to us translators.

Any new tool should have at least the features offered by this amazing (free) tool: http://farkastranslations.com/tmlookup.php

Michael


 
Michael Beijer
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Word Cloud May 30, 2018

I think this is kind of what you mean: https://appstore.sdl.com/language/app/sdl-trados-studio-word-cloud/402/

If so, something like that (as well as term extraction tools) may be fun, but I think a bilingual concordancer is much more useful and needed in our profession.

Michael


 


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