KWIC Concordance for Windows: Easy Access to Corpora
Satoru Tsukamoto · 2002
This article presents a corpus analytical tool, the KWIC Concordance for Windows. This program offers users the following functions: wordlists, concordances, and collocations. These functions can be selected from the menus. The concordance program offers the capability of handling various types of markup schemes, such as COCOA, SGML, fixed-block, or PPCME1. The parameters attached to a corpus can be selected interactively and obtained as part of output in search results. It should be noted that the program is specially tailored for use with the Helsinki Corpus. Each variable in that corpus can be selected from the selection menu on the dialog box. One can further transfer search results into a database program. The tool can produce output formats with each parameter value separated by a comma, or a tab code, which is suitable for database import. Together with the capability of managing the markup schemes mentioned above, this function enables one to handle corpora rich in information effectively.