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357:, "Most of the concordances produced in recent times and with the aid of computer software use both the KWIC (keyword in context) and KWICn (keyword in center) formats, which lists the keyword, usually highlighted in bold text in a consistent position, within a limited amount of context text, i.e. three four words of the text prior to the keyword and the same amount of text following. This format is extremely useful in that the keyword is easily identified together with its context. ... The Concordance of the Roman Missal is produced in both the KWIC and KWICn formats and is noteworthy in that each word form is listed as it appears in the text, that is, it is 276: 300: 288: 56:
For example, a search query including all of the words in an example definition ("KWIC is an acronym for Key Word In Context, the most common format for concordance lines") and the Knowledge slogan in English ("the đź’•"), searched against a Knowledge page, might yield a KWIC index as follows. A KWIC
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Note: The first reference does not show the KWIC index unless you pay to view the paper. The second reference does not even list the paper at all.
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index usually uses a wide layout to allow the display of maximum 'in context' information (not shown in the following example).
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Christopher D. Manning and Hinrich SchĂĽtze describe a KWIC index and computer concordancing in section 1.4.5 of their book
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of the headings. Books composed of many short sections with their own descriptive headings, most notably collections of
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section, allowing the reader to easily find a section by any word from its heading. This practice, also known as
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A KWIC index is formed by sorting and aligning the words within an article title to allow each word (except the
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uses a KWIC index as an example on how to perform modular design in his paper
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On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules
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Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing
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Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing
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Index

concordance
Hans Peter Luhn
Andrea Crestadoro
stop words
full text search
cyclic permutations
manual pages
Keyword alongside context (KWAC)
Keyword in context (KWIC)
Keyword out of context (KWOC)
David L. Parnas
On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules
ACM Classic Paper
ISBN
9780262133609
Concordantia et Indices Missalium Romanorum
un-lemmatized
ptx
Concordancer
Burrows–Wheeler transform
Suffix tree
"Advanced Indexing and Abstracting Practices"
"KWIC indexes and concordances"
the original
"3. Theory of KWIC indexing"
the original
Categories
Index (publishing)
Reference
Concordances (publishing)

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