3.272 anyone there? text retrieval program? (50)

Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@VM.EPAS.UTORONTO.CA)
Thu, 20 Jul 89 17:45:22 EDT


Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 272. Thursday, 20 Jul 1989.


(1) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 89 11:20:28 PLT (7 lines)
From: "Guy L. Pace" <PACE@WSUVM1>
Subject: Anyone there at University of Rochester?

(2) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 89 16:16:12 EDT (23 lines)
From: kurthern <KURTHERN@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: request for text analysis and retrieval program

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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 89 11:20:28 PLT
From: "Guy L. Pace" <PACE@WSUVM1>
Subject: Anyone there at University of Rochester?

A friend here is looking for someone from University of Rochester, New York.
Anyone out there from URNY? The person we're trying to contact has the last
name of MODRAK. Any BITNET data would be welcome. Thanx.
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Date: Thu, 20 Jul 89 16:16:12 EDT
From: kurthern <KURTHERN@vm.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: request for text analysis and retrieval program

[Please send all replies BOTH to Humanist and to Dr. Kurthern at the
above address. He is not on Humanist, but his question is interesting.
Thanks. --W.M.]

I am a Visiting Scholar from West-Germany at the Department of Sociology.
At the moment I'm looking for a PC-computer program which fits best for my
needs of text analysis or retrieval of WORD4.0 and SPSS files.
The program should be
- cheap or free of charge
- good enough for searching multiple files (100-150) in different directories
with altogether 1-5 MB
- find words, combinations of words (by Boolean logic), blocks of text/phrases
and numbers/symbols; retrieve them, manipulate them, record where they are
and copy them from one file or text to another
(not necessary, but helpful would be indexing, word frequency or vocabulary
statistics)
I was told that TACT or Gofer are not the most suitable programs for my
purpose. Maybe you could give me some advice?
Thank you very much for your help! Hermann Kurthen