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The Oxford Concordance Program (OCP)[1][2] was first released in 1981 and was a result of a project started in 1978 by Oxford University Computing Services to create a machine independent text analysis program for producing word lists, indexes and concordances in a variety of languages and alphabets.

In the 1980's it was claimed to have been licensed to around 240 institutions in 23 countries.


History

OCP was designed and written by Susan Hockey and Ian Marriott of Oxford University Computing Services in the period 1979-1980 and it's authors acknowledged that it owed much to the earlier COCOA and CLOC (University of Birmingham) concordance systems.[3]

During 1985-6 OCP was completely rewritten as version 2 to increase the efficiency of the program, a version was also produced for the IBM PC called Micro-OCP.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ [1] Acronymfinder.com - Oxford Concordance Program (OCP)
  2. ^ Rissanen, M.; Kyto, M.; Kytö, M.; Palander-Collin, M. (1993). Early English in the Computer Age: Explorations Through the Helsinki Corpus. Topics in English linguistics. Berlin. p. 16. ISBN 978-3-11-013739-2. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
  3. ^ [2] Oxford Concordance Program Review by: Frank O'Brien Computers and the Humanities Vol. 20, No. 2 (Apr. - Jun., 1986), pp. 138-141
  4. ^ [3] The Oxford Concordance Program Version 2 S. Hockey J. Martin Literary and Linguistic Computing, Volume 2, Issue 2, 1 January 1987, Pages 125–131, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/2.2.125 Published: 01 January 1987