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TMLookup vs AntConc | I do not use AntPConc

Milan Condak — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 19:58:00 +0000

Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: TMLookup vs AntConc
Poster: Milan Condak
Post title: I do not use AntPConc

[quote]Michael Beijer wrote:

I don't think anything can get much faster than TMLookup, but … TMLookup is for bilingual resources (tabbed text and TMX), while AntConc is for monolingual txt files. That is, they are two very different programs.

Michael

[/quote]

I do not use AntPConc. I have been using AntConc and TMLookup.

Can someone compare AntPConc vs. TMLookup?

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TMLookup vs AntConc | TMLookup = highly recommended as a monolingual concordancer too!

Michael Beijer — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 22:37:00 +0000

Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: TMLookup vs AntConc
Poster: Michael Beijer
Post title: TMLookup = highly recommended as a monolingual concordancer too!

I was just looking for a way to create a quick corpus of English patents, and after messing around with AntConc, tlCorpus, and a bunch of other specialised concordancers, I ended up making a much better one (for my purposes) with TMLookup (following FarkasAndras' instructions on this page). What an amazingly useful little program. The problem with my patent corpus is it is gigantic (as it contains all the English patent text I can find from various sources such as PatTR, EuroPat, etc.), and most of these concordancers slow down to a crawl as they are not indexed like TMLookup.

Happy days!

TMLookup vs AntConc | AntConc's Two biggest limitations: SPEED and SIZE

Danesh — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 05:59:00 +0000

Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: TMLookup vs AntConc
Poster: Danesh
Post title: AntConc's Two biggest limitations: SPEED and SIZE

[quote]Riccardo Schiaffino wrote:

It really depends on what you want to do. TMLookup is a very useful tool, and allows you to search on large translation memories (or even monolingual files, as suggested).
However, IMHO AntConc is better if what you are trying to do is to search for collocations, n-grams etc: that's what a concordancer is for. [/quote]

Dear Riccardo,
Hi. Thank you for the comment. You're right, but the main problem with AntConc is the issues of SPEED and SIZE limitations! AntConc gets unusably slow or fails completely with large files or massive overall corpus size.
Yours,
Danesh

[Edited at 2016-07-01 06:00 GMT]

TMLookup vs AntConc | Give AntConc a try

Riccardo Schiaffino — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 22:41:00 +0000

Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: TMLookup vs AntConc
Poster: Riccardo Schiaffino
Post title: Give AntConc a try

It really depends on what you want to do. TMLookup is a very useful tool, and allows you to search on large translation memories (or even monolingual files, as suggested).

However, IMHO AntConc is better if what you are trying to do is to search for collocations, n-grams etc: that's what a concordancer is for.

TMLookup vs AntConc | THANKS a million for your procedure

Danesh — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 07:30:00 +0000

Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: TMLookup vs AntConc
Poster: Danesh
Post title: THANKS a million for your procedure

[quote]FarkasAndras wrote:
Recommended procedure:
Create a two-column database, uncheck the option to add a source column and name your second column source.
Then, when importing your files, add the file name or as the source information. You can't create a db with only one column; this way at least there will be something useful in the second column. [/quote]

Dear Michael,
THANKS a million for your procedure. I'll try it.
Regards,
Danehs

TMLookup vs AntConc | Yes

FarkasAndras — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 06:50:00 +0000

Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: TMLookup vs AntConc
Poster: FarkasAndras
Post title: Yes

[quote]Danesh wrote:

[quote]Michael J.W. Beijer wrote:

I don't think anything can get much faster than TMLookup, but … TMLookup is for bilingual resources (tabbed text and TMX), while AntConc is for monolingual txt files. That is, they are two very different programs.

Michael

[/quote]

Dear Michael,

First off, THANK YOU very much indeed for your informative comment.

Can't I use TMLookup _ because of its satisfying speed and support for massive files_ for building and working with monolingual corpora?

Best,
Danesh [/quote]
Not sure about how AntConc compares to TMLookup, but you can (kind of) make a monolingual database with TMLookup if you want to.
Recommended procedure:
Create a two-column database, uncheck the option to add a source column and name your second column source.
Then, when importing your files, add the file name or as the source information. You can't create a db with only one column; this way at least there will be something useful in the second column.

TMLookup vs AntConc | THANK

Danesh — Sun, 26 Jun 2016 18:14:00 +0000

Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: TMLookup vs AntConc
Poster: Danesh
Post title: THANK

[quote]Michael J.W. Beijer wrote:

I don't think anything can get much faster than TMLookup, but … TMLookup is for bilingual resources (tabbed text and TMX), while AntConc is for monolingual txt files. That is, they are two very different programs.

Michael

[/quote]

Dear Michael,

First off, THANK YOU very much indeed for your informative comment.

Can't I use TMLookup _ because of its satisfying speed and support for massive files_ for building and working with monolingual corpora?

Best,
Danesh

TMLookup vs AntConc | the two tools have very different purposes

Michael Beijer — Sun, 26 Jun 2016 15:54:00 +0000

Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: TMLookup vs AntConc
Poster: Michael Beijer
Post title: the two tools have very different purposes

I don't think anything can get much faster than TMLookup, but … TMLookup is for bilingual resources (tabbed text and TMX), while AntConc is for monolingual txt files. That is, they are two very different programs.

Michael

TMLookup vs AntConc

Danesh — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 07:54:00 +0000

Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: TMLookup vs AntConc
Poster: Danesh

Hi
For now I just want to know your informed judgements about “Speed (fast search results)” and “Support for massive databases” features of TMLookup 1.31 and AntConc 3.4.4 compared to each other. Thank you very much in advance for your detailed comments.
Yours,
Danesh