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Class 5. Tools. Concordancers. Corpora are collections of texts. Concordancers are programs developed to process corpus data. Advantages. KWIC view various search options single word, word and its POS tag, part of a word, phrase, pattern, collocation
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Class 5 Tools
Concordancers • Corpora are collections of texts. • Concordancers are programs developed to process corpus data.
Advantages • KWIC view • various search options single word, word and its POS tag, part of a word, phrase, pattern, collocation • work with several files simultaneously • create wordlists • other advanced functions (e.g. statistical analysis, keyword analysis)
Two categories • dedicated (working only with a specific corpus) • SARA, VIEW, Phrases in English, CUP • open (working with any corpus) • Wordsmith Tools, MonoConc
Best concordancers • Wordsmith Toolshttp://www.lexically.net/wordsmith • MonoConchttp://www.monoconc.com/
Free concordancers (1) • Compleat Lexical Tutor http://www.lextutor.ca/ • works over the Internet • rather basic
Free concordancers (2) • AntComp • http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/antconc_index.html • a very good concordancer • does not need to be installed on the computer
Free concordancers (3) • Simple Concordance Programmehttp://www.textworld.com/scp/
Web concordancers • WebCorp http://www.webcorp.org.uk/index.html • Glossanet http://glossa.fltr.ucl.ac.be/ • KwicFinder http://www.kwicfinder.com/KWiCFinder.html
Lexical Profiling • Compleat Lexical Tutorhttp://www.lextutor.ca/ • Rangehttp://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/about/staff/paul-nation