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{{Short description|Computer program that constructs concordances}}
A '''concordancer''' is a [[computer program]] that automatically constructs a [[concordance (publishing)|concordance]]. The output of a concordancer may serve as input to a [[translation memory]] system for [[computer-assisted translation]], or as an early step in [[machine translation]].

Concordancers are also used in [[corpus linguistics]] 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,<ref>[http://onlineqda.hud.ac.uk/Which_software/what_packages_are_available/concordance.php] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161211154308/http://onlineqda.hud.ac.uk/Which_software/what_packages_are_available/concordance.php |date=2016-12-11 }} What packages are available</ref>
notably 
[[Oxford Concordance Program]] (OCP),<ref>[https://www.acronymfinder.com/Oxford-Concordance-Program-(OCP).html] Acronymfinder.com - Oxford Concordance Program (OCP)</ref> a concordancer first released in 1981 by [[Oxford University Computing Services]], which claims to be used in over 200 organisations worldwide.<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/30200056?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents] Oxford Concordance Program
Review by: Frank O'Brien
Computers and the Humanities
Vol. 20, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1986), pp. 138-141</ref><ref>[https://academic.oup.com/dsh/article-abstract/2/2/125/956070?redirectedFrom=fulltext] 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</ref>

== See also ==
* [[COCOA (digital humanities)]]
* [[Cross-reference]]
* [[Ctags]]
* [[Key Word in Context|KWIC]]
* [[Language industry]]
* [[Statistically improbable phrase]]

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[[Category:Concordances (publishing)| Concordancer]]
[[Category:Corpus linguistics]]
[[Category:Machine translation]]


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