[PDF] Concordances 3 Génération

What is a fourth-generation concordancer?

Fourth-generation concordancers also allow corpus builders to make their work available immediately, and via a piece of software (the web browser) that all computer users are already familiar with. This avoids investing a lot of effort in the distribution of a corpus on disks or via download.

How did a second-generation concordancer work?

Any further analysis was done by separate programs. Second-generation concordancers were a result of the rise of the personal computer in the 1980s were enabled by the spread of machines of one type in particular across the planet. Unlike the first-generation, they were designed to be installed and used on the analyst’s own machine.

What is a Bible concordance?

A Bible concordance is an alphabetical listings of words and phrases found in the Holy Bible and shows where the terms occur throughout all books of Scripture. With cross-references for verses, concordances make it easy to understand the meaning of terms and the context in which those words are used.

Why have concordances been compiled?

Concordances have been compiled only for works of special importance, such as the Vedas, Bible, Qur'an or the works of Shakespeare, James Joyce or classical Latin and Greek authors, because of the time, difficulty, and expense involved in creating a concordance in the pre- computer era.