Precomputing for fun and profit

    Last year I wrote a post about my keyword analysis tool. I wrote this piece of software in the years before I started working for OUP, and only now I have seen the tools at the disposal of the lexicographers do I realise that I created what was in effect a corpus analysis tool.
    I used the technologies I was familiar with using for web sites, PHP and MySQL. These are the bread-and-butter