SCAN

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SCAN was a conversational programming language available in the 1970s for text analysis. It was specific to text processing and could be used divide a text into sentences or words or split on separators. It was capable of running counts on a text, printing particular sentences, checking whether a particular word has occured, matching word-patterns or finding alliterations.

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Creator(s): P.J. Wilson, University of Kent at Canterbury

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Type of analysis: Search Analysis Discovering Programming
Background Processing: Doesn't Run in Background
Web Usable: Other
Ease of Use: Moderate
Historic Tool (developed before 2005): No longer in active development
TaDiRAH Goals: Creation
TaDiRAH Methods: Discovering Other (analysis) Programming Statistical Analysis

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Amy Dyrbye

More information on SCAN and its use within the humanities can be found in the following:

Brown, P.J. \"SCAN: A Simple Conversational Programming Language for Text Analysis.\" Computers and the Humanities 6.4 (1972): 223-227. Web.

Brown, P.J. SCAN - A Sub-System for Document Searching. Computing Laboratory, University of Kent at Canterbury, 1971. Web.

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