ARRAS

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ARRAS is a historically important tool for analyzing and concording text. It notably provided inspiration for the TACT system.

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Creator(s): John B. Smith, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina

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Type of analysis: Analysis
Ease of Use: Moderate
Historic Tool (developed before 2005): Influential No longer in active development
TaDiRAH Goals: Analysis
TaDiRAH Methods: Other (analysis)

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Amy Dyrbye

More information on ARRAS is available through its user manual and overview documentation:

Smith, John B. Arras User's Manual. TextLab: The University of Carolina at Chapel Hill (1984). Web.

Smith, John B., Stephen F. Weiss and Gordon J. Ferguson. MICROARRAS: An Overview. Chapel Hill: TextLab, The University of Carolina at Chapel Hill (1986). Web.

This tool is also explored in the following articles:

Lancashire, Ian. \"Concordance Programs for Literary Analysis.\" SIGCUE Outlook 19.112 (Spring/Summer 1986): 54-61. Web.

Smith, John B. \"A New Environment for Literary Analysis.\" Perspectives in Computing 4.2/3 (1984): 20.31.

More information on ARRAS' relationship to TACT is available in:

Centre for Computing in the Humanities. Tools for Humanists, 1989: Software & Hardware: Fair Guide. Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto (1989).

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