Re: "Term Mining" -- Any tips or tools for small-scale job?

Subject: Re: "Term Mining" -- Any tips or tools for small-scale job?
From: Sandy Harris <sandyinchina -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:07:05 -0500

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Nancy Allison <maker -at- verizon -dot- net> wrote:

> Is there any affordable tool you know of that would identify a term
> like "leakage reactance test" instead of simply spitting out the three
> words leakage, reactance, and test?
>
i would try generating a permuted index (or keyword in context or
KWIC index) from the text, then look and see what it told me.

Description of the technique at;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_Word_in_Context

Web search turns up dozens of tools for this, mostly free.
one is;
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/15605/A-permuted-index-keyword-in-context-generator
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