A Method To Reduce Large Number Of Concordances

In order to help to solve the problem of analysing large number of concordances of a given word 'W', the 'Dicc ionar io del Espa~ol de M~xico~ (DEM), has implemented a programme that i ) Reduces th is number, as to obtain the maximum possible informati.on with the minimum number of concordances to be handled. i i ) Sortes and rearranges the output so that s imi lar concordances are pr inted out together. This was done by comparing up to four words to the l e f t and to the r i gh t of word W, through the whole set of concordances, associat ing toge: ther those which were repeated in a par t i cu la r context. Once knowing th i s , some s ign i f i can t concordances were selected to be pr inted out, and the rest was discarded.