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Hi. I am a ATLAS.ti user/trainer/consultant. From your short project 
description  I think you can do it with ATLAS.ti. One of the tools in 
ATLAS.ti's Workbench is a Query Tool.
These are the operators in the Query Tool (Manual, p. 162).
*Operators*
Three sets of operators are available. They are located within the 
toolbar at the left edge of the Query Tool.

*Boolean *operators allow combinations of keywords according to set 
operations. They are the most common operators used in
information retrieval systems.

*Semantic* operators exploit the network structures that were built
from the codes.
*
Proximity *operators are used to analyze the spatial relations (e.g., 
distance, embeddedness, overlapping, co-occurrence) between coded data 
segments.

With the tool you can do many forms of complex queries, on your full 
data set, parts of your dataset.... It also has a Network Tool which is 
basically a Social Network Tool.
Together with the other tools in the Workbench you can lots of things. 
You can also export data to matrix, xml, SPSS and various forms of reports.
Here is a 300 pages manual: http://www.atlasti.com/downloads/atlman.pdf   

If you have any questions regarding ATLAS.ti I am happy to reply to them.

If you decide to try it here is a trial version: 
http://esd.element5.com/demoreg.html?productid=535344
If you decide to buy it i can help you with that, I am ATLAS.ti partner 
and reseller.
The software have a lot of features and for beginners it can be tough to 
learn. I provide customized training for the users needs. If you feel 
you struggle with the software (how, which, what, why....then what... 
etc.) I can provide support/training until your comfortable with it. I 
do that often for PhD students using the software. I use a web 
conference system often. With desktop sharing, voice +++ which works 
very well. Particularly if you need on-demand support/training.

Regards,
Ole Brudvik
www.artgarden.com.sg

Dragomir Radev wrote:
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> Are you interested in positional distance or syntactic distance?
>
> E.g., the syntactic distance between "house" and "located" is small in
> both examples below whereas the positional distance obviously changes
> a lot more.
>
> The house is located in the suburbs.
>
> The house that cost a million and took three years to build is located
> in the suburbs.
>
> What is your softawre environment? Do you have access to perl?
>
> Drago
>
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>> Greetings,
>>
>> My name is Ashley Sanders-Jackson and I am a graduate student at the
>> Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.  I
>> am currently working on a project where we are attempting to categorize
>> word dyads within a document and determine their proximity (that is, the
>> number of words between the first word in the dyad and the second word
>> in the dyad) without human coding.  Thus far, we are pretty good at
>> categorizing the dyads based on what we are interested in and not so
>> good at determining proximity between the words within the dyad itself.
>> Is there any piece of software or programming that might assist us in
>> this task or are there any articles that I could read that might be
>> helpful?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Ashley
>>
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