A concordancer is a
computer program
A computer program is a sequence or set of instructions in a programming language for a computer to Execution (computing), execute. Computer programs are one component of software, which also includes software documentation, documentation and oth ...
that automatically constructs a
concordance. The output of a concordancer may serve as input to a
translation memory A translation memory (TM) is a database that stores "segments", which can be sentences, paragraphs or sentence-like units (headings, titles or elements in a list) that have previously been translated, in order to aid human translators. The translat ...
system for
computer-assisted translation
Computer-aided translation (CAT), also referred to as computer-assisted translation or computer-aided human translation (CAHT), is the use of software to assist a human translator in the translation
Translation is the communication of ...
, or as an early step in
machine translation
Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT (not to be confused with computer-aided translation, machine-aided human translation or interactive translation), is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates ...
.
Concordancers are also used in
corpus linguistics
Corpus linguistics is the study of a language as that language is expressed in its text corpus (plural ''corpora''), its body of "real world" text. Corpus linguistics proposes that a reliable analysis of a language is more feasible with corpora ...
to retrieve alphabetically or otherwise sorted lists of linguistic data from the corpus in question, which the
corpus linguist then analyzes.
A number of concordancers have been published
notably
Oxford Concordance Program
The Oxford Concordance Program (OCP) was first released in 1981 and was a result of a project started
in 1978 by Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS) to create a machine independent text analysis program for producing word lists, indexes an ...
(OCP), a concordancer first released in 1981 by
Oxford University Computing Services claims to be used in over 200 organisations worldwide.
The Oxford Concordance Program Version 2
S. Hockey J. Martin
Literary and Linguistic Computing, Volume 2, Issue 2, 1 January 1987, Pages 125–131, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/2.2.125
Published: 01 January 1987
See also
* COCOA (digital humanities) COCOA (an acronym derived from COunt and COncordance Generation on Atlas) was an early text file utility and associated file format for digital humanities, then known as humanities computing. It was approximately 4000 punched cards of FORTRAN and c ...
* Cross-reference
The term cross-reference (abbreviation: xref) can refer to either:
* An instance within a document which refers to related information elsewhere in the same document. In both printed and online dictionaries cross-references are important because ...
* Ctags
Ctags is a programming tool that generates an index (or tag) file of names found in source and header files of various programming languages to aid code comprehension. Depending on the language, functions, variables, class members, macros an ...
* KWIC
* Language industry
* Statistically improbable phrase A statistically improbable phrase (SIP) is a phrase or set of words that occurs more frequently in a document (or collection of documents) than in some larger corpus. Amazon.com uses this concept in determining keywords for a given book or chapter ...
References
Concordancer
Corpus linguistics
Machine translation
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