(OT) Words in context?

japhy has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm writing a program for my book, and I wish to have the proper terminology. What is a content display like this called? (I keep thinking something like "concurrence" or somesuch...)

TEXT:
The last thing he did before he walked out the door was
tell his wife he loved her.  He disappeared into the dark
night, and was never seen again.

WORD: "he"

DISPLAY:
last thing he did before
    before he walked out
  his wife he lover her.
     her.  He disappeared
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I know there's a term for it, I just can't remember it...

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Re: (OT) Words in context? by dws (Chancellor) on Nov 13, 2001 at 02:59 UTC
I know there's a term for it, I just can't remember it... The term you're looking for is 'concordance'. www.concordance.com has concordances for several Great Books. Many years back a friend helped a prof build a concordance of the Federalist Papers. If I recall correctly, there were some non-obvious (academic?) rules about what constituted a good concordance.	[reply]
Re: (OT) Words in context? by traveler (Parson) on Nov 13, 2001 at 03:30 UTC
I think the term you want is "KeyWord In Context" or KWIC for short. There is (used to be) lots of KWIC indexing software. There was even a tool for generating UNIX manpage indices that way. HTH, --traveler Update: on UNIX the index is called a "permuted index". It took the old /dev/mind a while to come up with that...	[reply]