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  <Title>Concordances of Snippets</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Excellent concordances can be produced by tools mounted on regular web search engines but these tools are not suitable for quick lookups on the web because it takes time to collect ad-hoc corpora with occurrences of a queried word or phrase. It is possible to get a web concordance in an instant if the amount of transferred data can be limited. One way to do it is to use snippets from a search engine as a basis for concordance lines, which is a solution adopted in Lexware Culler - a web concordance tool mounted on Google. It takes the same time to look up words and phrases in Lexware Culler as it takes for Google to deliver results for a search. The question is whether concordances based on snippets can be satisfactory for linguists or language learners. Our tests show that they actually can. With proper filtering concordances based on snippets can provide a good survey of current language use, which is particularly important as a complement to online dictionaries.</Paragraph>
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