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Friday, April 3, 2009

Posting 5: Concordance

Software for text analysis gives you better insight into electronic texts.

Concordance, text analysis and concordance software, is for anyone who needs to study texts closely or analyse language in depth. This is the most powerful and flexible concordance program, with registered users in more than 60 countries. You can download a 30-day trial now.

Article 1: http://www.concordancesoftware.co.uk/concordance_resources.htm

Concordance is fully copyrighted. You may try it out free of charge for thirty days for

personal evaluation only, but if you wish to keep on using it you must register it with the

author and pay the registration fee.

A concordance is first of all a comprehensive index to a text where every occurrence of every

word in the text has an entry in the index. By looking up a word in a concordance you can be

certain you have found every instance of that word in the text.

You can make wordlists and u can make concordances. The program can make complete concordances to all the words in your text. You can save the concordance as a plain text file suitable for further editing, or as an HTML file for use with a web browser.

Article 2: http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/structure/structure1/conc.html

A Concordance program is a computer program that can help you analyze the language that is used in real situations. There are two basic ways you can use a concordance:

1. Concordance programs you have on your own computer. Examples Conc 1.76, for Macs and ConcApp, for Windows.

The advantage of using a concordance program on your computer like Concord to search within texts you choose, is that you can choose texts you are already familiar with, so the context is clearer.

2. Online concordances for example, Collins COBUILD and Spaceless Concordancer.

The advantages of using an online concordances are that you can do this online without installing a concordance program on your computer, and that you can search in much larger corpora.

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