Good morning all,
More on COCOA from Geoffrey Rockwell.
Geoffrey writes:
Here is something I excerpted on COCOA from a paper I wrote:
To return to my brief history of text-analysis tools, the first generation
of available tools were batch tools that were not
interactive, but were designed to produce paper concordances. This can be
seen in the names and operations of many of these
tools. COCOA stands for Count and Concordance generation on the Atlas,
though some of suspect it was the drink of choice of
the programmers. The Oxford University Computing Service took over COCOA
in 1978 and produced OCP and later Micro-OCP. The
OCP stands for the Oxford Concordance Program. See the appendix on COCOA
written by Robert L. Oakman in Howard-Hill, T. H.,
Literary Concordances. Howard-Hill, T. H., Literary Concordances.
Pergamon: Oxford, 1979.
One of the best sources of information about TACT and encoding with COCOA
for TACT is:
Lancashire, Ian, et al. Using TACT with Electronic Texts. Modern Languages
Association of America: New York, 1996.
---Thanks Geoff.
best, Andrea
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