-Prof. Tim
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From: Tonya Howe <tonya@teleute.com>
To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com>
Date: Sunday, August 30, 1998 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: virus: processing the archives
>I am not quite sure if this will help you at all, but there is a version
>of the U of Toronto's TACT program (textual analysis computing tools)
freely
>available at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/cch/tact.html. This is
>a great thing to use if you want to find specific or related word frequency
>within a specific electronic text, distribution of said configuration(s),
>and even who said what when. The only drawback to this handy little tool
>is that the text must be tagged appropriately, and the program itself is
>rather complex. Additionally, as far as I know, there are no documentation
>sources currently available, either on paper or electronically.
>
>There is also MTAS, another textual analysis tool, which is not as good
>as TACT, but whatever. You can find the source code and program at
>ftp://ftp.epas.utoronto.ca/pub/cch/mtas/. I don't generally use this
>program, but you may find it useful. Let me know if these tips help--
>
>tonya
>
>tonya@teleute.com
>thowe@umich.edu
>
>