[Corpora-List] Fwd: Simple but powerful concordancer for EAP students

[njbruce at hkucc.hku.hk]

Many thanks to the many corpora-list people who have responded.
I am replying inddividually to each in turn, but have a further question re. the
"Concgram". I see this as a major advance - but has anyone surveyed student
users to see if it has made any difference to the usefulness or speed with
which they can user corpora and concordancers?
Best regards,
Nigel Bruce

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    Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:24:06 +0200

    From: njbruce at hkucc.hku.hk
Reply-To: njbruce at hkucc.hku.hk

 Subject: Simple but powerful concordancer for EAP students

      To: Corpora List <CORPORA at uib.no>

I am looking for a concordancer that will provide students with a 
"3-click shop" to help them quickly determine the most frequent collocations of
a search term. 
I am ideally looking for a program that has incorporated 
a)the "concgram", which ranks 4-5-word strings by descending frequency, &
b) stem searching - e.g. using * or ? to find all morphological inflections

I'm not seeking a complex interface, with a powerful range of options (beyond
sort to the left/right).
Ideally, the program should allow users to uplaod their own corpora, as I am
seeking to cater to NNS PhD students, whose needs are highly specific.
Any help welcome,
Nigel Bruce

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