The Advanced Reader's Collocation Searcher (ARCS)  

by Horst Bogatz,

 "the committedly constant collector of contemporary collocations."

The Advanced Reader`s Collocation Searcher (ARCS)
Kiefernstraße 18
Meppen, Lower Saxony D-49716

ph: +49-5931-29225

What my customers/ experts are saying ...

  I take pride in delivering a cutting-edge electronic bilingual dictionary of English collocations and their German equivalents to all of my customers.

  Read what some of my satisfied clients have said about the ARCS!

  •   "The ARCS has real-life utility." (Josh Needleman)

      "In fact, collocation data is an important part and necessity for eeggi,i.e. engineered language technology." (Frank Bandach, eeggi CTO)

      "The ARCS is a cutting-edge customer-focus dictionary." (Bill Drummond)

      "Your language collections are beneficial to my law studies." (Chun Hung Hsiao)

      " I hate fumbling with a heavy paper dictionary. The ARCS makes things much easier and faster." (Geoffrey Boyd

      "I have used the ARCS as a certified translater. It has passed the acid test wonderfully!" (Henry O. McTier)

      "The ARCS is a must-have for learners as well as native speakers." (H.B. Wilkin)

      "This search facility indeed makes the ARCS a useful tool for learners of English." (Dr. Philippa Maurer-Stroh

      "I really enjoy the ARCS. This is an excellent source of collocations." (Prof. Dr. Andrzej Lyda

      "Students of the English language are lucky, if their over-correct teachers use the ARCS." (Kristina Kretzschmar)

      "I use the ARCS intensively and I think it does an excellent job." (Pericles Metaxas

      "This is the most comprehensive, innovative and helpful dictionary of collocations in the world." (Herbert F. Jones)

      "The ARCS is both a comprehensive English language resource and a browser's delight." (Mary E. Cristallo)

      "This is the first searchable collocations dictionary I have seen." (Prof. Jennifer Lai Bromley)

      "The most thorough concordancer in the world!" (Machmud Mojtabapur

      "This is, to my competence, the first large collocation database for English in the world!" (Prof. Dr. Igor A. Bolshakov

      "Tracking down a word combination in the ARCSis a mere child's play." (Prof. Dr. D. Siepmann)

      "The examples and phrases are a major feature of this dictionary." (ELRA review

      "Collocations are particularly fruitful areas for exploration with concordancing." (Prof. Vance Stevens)

      "Collocations might very well be a boon for advanced English learners looking for ways of making their English more natural." (Nicolas R. Cueto)

     "The ARCS is ... one of the most comprehensive collocational dictionaries currently available." (Prof. Dr. D. Siepmann)

     "Corpus-linguistic methods and techniques can be used to identify a term, its grammatical environment and some pragmatic features." (Khurshid Ahmad)

     "I am delighted to find your website ARCS and your admired work of collocation dictionary." (Raimund Tse)

     "I find it an extremely useful tool for teachers and researchers." (Thierry Lorey)

     "The learning of collocations is of very great importance for advanced learners, since a real command of a foreign langage depends especially on the command of a great number of common word combinations." (Dr. Udo Deutscher)

     "Your work is excellent." (Pericles Metaxas)

     "A database cross-referenced in this way is relatively easy to search computationally." (A.E. Motter)

Comparison of the ARCS with COBUILD, BBI, DOSC

====>ARCSCOBUILDBBI
nodes60,00010,00014,0003,200
collocates per nodeup to 500up to 20up to 20up to 20
examples per nodeup to 100up to ? up to 20up to 20
collocationsabout 1,000,000about 140,00070,00055,000
German equivalents per nodeup to 20nonenonenone
frequenciesnoneyesnonenone
synonyms per nodeup to 50nonenonenone
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The Advanced Reader`s Collocation Searcher (ARCS)
Kiefernstraße 18
Meppen, Lower Saxony D-49716

ph: +49-5931-29225