The Application of Concordancing Tools

in EducationZahra ShafieeSpring 2014

AntConchttp://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/software.html

• AntConc started out as a relatively simple concordance program, but has been slowly progressing to become a rather useful text analysis tool. It is written in Perl 5.8 using ActiveState’s excellent Komodo development environment.

AdTAThttp://www.adelaide.edu.au/red/

Adtat is a free concordance tool by The University of Adelaide.This site works with the research community at all levels, and contributes to skills and knowledge essential to research success. To give educational work a sound theoretical and pedagogical platform, this site researches international best practice, and publish in a broad range of areas concerned with (higher) education, language and culture.

Saffronhttp://saffron.deri.ie/lrec/topic/concordancing_tool/

TextSTAThttp://neon.niederlandistik.fu-berlin.de/en/textstat/

• TextSTAT is a simple programme for the analysis of texts. It reads plain text files (in different encodings) and HTML files (directly from the internet) and it produces word frequency lists and concordances from these files. This version includes a web-spider which reads as many pages as you want from a particular website and puts them in a TextSTAT-corpus. The new news-reader, too, puts news messages in a TextSTAT-readable corpus file.TextSTAT reads MS Word and OpenOffice files. No conversion needed, just add the files to your corpus…In TextSTAT you can use regular expression which provides you with powerful search possibilities. The programme is multilingual. Because it uses Unicode internally, TextSTAT can cope with many different languages and file encodings.

WordSmithhttp://www.lexically.net/wordsmith/version5/index.html

This lexical analysis software include a concordancer, word-listing facilities, a tool for computing the keywords of a text or genre, and a series of other utilities e.g. to convert text files from one format to another or to make multiple changes in many text files, to examine the format of text files, to download texts from the web, etc

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