fraze finder

Highlight collocations, chunks, idioms, phrasal verbs and semi-fixed lexical phrases in texts. Perfect for building collocation awareness in ESL students. Analyze your text here

features

• highlights and lists chunks in a given text
• very fast lookups using a slightly modified version of Steve Hanov's succinct bit string trie implementation
• fully client-side and portable - works offline, too!
• zero framework rubbish - pure vanilla javascript with zero overhead - tiny code with zero external dependencies
• responsive mobile-first layout

demo

check it out here

further reading

Read up on the usefulness of teaching chunks / collocations in EFL classrooms here:

• Why has the lexical approach been so long in coming?
• Seth Lindstromberg: Teaching Chunks of Language
• Lexical Approach
• Optimizing a Lexical Approach to Instructed Second Language Acquisition

implementation details

Read more about performance-first string lookups in javascript using tries here:

• Succinct Data Structures: Cramming 80,000 words into a Javascript file
• John Resig's Revised JavaScript Dictionary Search
• Create optimized wordlist data structures for mobile webapps

MIT License

Copyright 2016-7 Wiktor Jakubczyc