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KWIC

(kwɪk)
n acronym for
(Computer Science) key word in context (esp in the phrase KWIC index)
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KWIC

(Comput) abbr of keyword in contextKWIC
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Se realiza un analisis de concordancia Keyword In Context (KWic) para la construccion de principios y de agenda relacionales de alta FL, dentro del 25% de la distribucion superior de la politica exterior, domestica y partidaria (5).
After a user conducts a search, the KWIC displays the search results as a list of "concordance lines." (138) These lines allow the user to see a twenty-eight-word snapshot of the source that contains the word that the user searched.
For every KWiC, the user can show the wider textual context in which the result occurs or directly access the original source (PDF or Webpage) (vi).
They reported that the method was very effective and the students liked the approach because KWIC format in concordancing made it very easy for them to learn the correct verb forms.
Most of the words in the corpus index software are KWIC index, which is the keyword search with context.
Radial volumetric imaging breath-hold examination (VIBE) with k-space weighted image contrast (KWIC) for dynamic gadoxetic acid (Gd-EOB-DTPA)-enhanced MRI of the liver: advantages over Cartesian VIBE in the arterial phase.
Kaazing Corporation, leader in secure, real-time, application-to-application web connectivity and producer of the Kaazing WebSocket Intercloud Connect (KWIC) product, today releases an enhanced version of KWIC that supports popular open source SQL and NoSQL databases.
Concordance programs are used to create word-frequency lists, word indexes, and keyword-in-context (KWIC) lists (Hockey 49-65).
We applied our proposed evaluation framework to seven freely available corpus processing systems: aConCorde V0.4.3 (http://www.andy-roberts.net/coding/aconcorde), AntConc V3.2.4w (http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/software.html), Key Word in Context (KWIC) V5.0 (http:// www.chs.nihon-u.ac.jp/eng_dpt/tukamoto/kwic4_e.html), Khawas V3.0 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/kacst-acptool/), Simple Concordance Program (SCP) V4.0.9 (http:// www.textworld.com/), TextSTAT V2.9 (http://neon.niederlandistik.fu-berlin.de/en/textstat/), and TextStat V3.0 (http:// sourceforge.net/projects/textstat/).
We have used a piece of authentic language--corpus (200 citations)--from a British newspaper and a KWIC (Key Word in Context)--the word globalization with its British spelling: globalisation.