TEXTAN

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TEXTAN was a program developed by Suzanne Hanon of the University of Aarhus in the 1970s for locating English loan words in French texts. It was written in ALGOL 4 and consisted of two programs. TEXTAN 1 learned anglicisms developed manually from French newspapers, while TEXTAN 2 searched a French text and located anglicisms.

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Creator(s): Suzanne Hanon, University of Aarhus

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Type of analysis: Search Discovering
Ease of Use: Moderate
Historic Tool (developed before 2005): Influential No longer in active development Discontinued (no longer available)
TaDiRAH Methods: Discovering

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Amy Dyrbye

More information on TEXTAN is available in the following article:

Hanon, Suzanne. \"The Study of English Loan-Words in Modern French.\" Computers and the Humanities 7.6 (1973): 389-398. Web.

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