WordCruncher: Problems of Multilingual Usage
M. KAMMER · Literary and Linguistic Computing · 1989
Word Cruncher is a full-text-retrieval system especially developed for literary textual corpora and optimized for this purpose There are two main presentation forms of occurrences. onscreen presentation of short contexts and short indexes. The program has been well known for a number of years and has been described several times, so the goal of this article cannot be to describe all the features and details The users manual gives all the necessary information on programs, features and options. In this article some problems concerning the usage of WordCruncher with multilingual texts will be discussed Choosing texts not written in English will result in some special problems of intercultural transfer of software being indicated These problems will increase when trying to produce a lemmatized index. Keeping this special point of view in mind we will discuss some of the program options and restrictions and show how it is possible to solve the remaining problems by using a template