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AntConc Lexa SPC
Conc Microconcord 1 TACT
ConcApp Microconcord 2 TextStat
Concordance MonoConc Pro Wordsmith
Concorder Multiconcord Xaira
KWIC Finder Phrase Context  

   
 

../ AntConc
Developed by: Laurence Anthony
Features:   Components: Concordancer, View Files, Word Clusters, Word List, Keyword List
Access:   Free download
Platform:   Linux and Windows Release available
   
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../ Conc
Developed by: Summer Institute of Linguistics (?)
Features:   "Conc produces concordances of texts. A concordance consists of a list of the words in the text with a short section of the context that precedes and follows each word. Conc also produces an index, consisting of a list of the distinct words in the text, each with the number of times it occurs and a list of the places where it occurs. Conc displays the original text, the concordance, and the index each in its own window. Clicking on a word in any one of the three windows causes the other two windows to display the entries for the same word."
Access:   Free download
Platform:   Mac only
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../ ConcApp
Developed by: Chris Greaves
Features:   "This version includes full editing support and testing activities, and also word frequency text analysis. It now has support for unicode and can process not only English, French and probably most other European languages, but Chinese, Japanese, Thai and Russian  texts in unicode. You can download the execute program directly or the full setup program."
Access:   Free download; Tutorial is also available
Platform:   Windows only
   
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../ Concordance
Developed by: R.J.C. Watts
Features:  

"With Concordance , you can

  • make indexes and word lists
  • count word frequencies
  • compare different usages of a word
  • analyse keywords
  • find phrases and idioms
  • publish to the web -- see The Web Concordances
  • ...and much more besides. "
Access:   Purchase of Licence required; 30 Day trial version available for download
Platform:   Windows only
   
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../ Concorder
Developed by: D.W. Rand
Features:   " Concorder is a Macintosh software package for the creation, editing, sorting and printing of concordances. The user controls the operating definition of a "word" through the choice of alphabet. Using different alphabets - including several predefined in the software as well as custom alphabets built by the user - it is possible to analyse text in a variety of languages such as English, French, Russian, etc., i.e. any language whose alphabet can be encoded as one byte per character, written from left to right, and for which an appropriate font is available."
Access:   Free download
Platform:   Mac only
   
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../ KWIC Finder
Developed by: William H. Fletcher
Features:  
  • "KWiCFinder conducts your online searches without supervision
  • It returns Key Word in Context abstracts highlighting your search terms so you can evaluate the usefulness of documents matching your query
  • Search reports are highly interactive [..]
  • Numerous enhancements permit more finely-targeted searches than typical web search engines "
Access:   Free download (Registration required)
Platform:   Windows only
   
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../ LEXA
Developed by: Raymond Hickey
Features:   "The intention behind the present set of programmes is to put at the disposal of the interested linguist the tools he or she would require in order to process linguistically relevant data, most probably from an available corpus, with a high degree of automation on a personal computer. The package is divided into several groups which perform typical functions. Of these the first, lexical analysis, will be of immediate concern. The main programme, Lexa, allows one to tag and lemmatise any text or series of texts with a minimum of effort. All that is required is that the user specify what (possible) words are to be assigned to what lemmas."
Access:   available on the ICAME CD-ROM and version 7 is available for download here. (starts download of zip file)
Platform:   Windows only
   
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../ Microconcord (athelstan)
Developed by: Mike Scott and Tim Johns
Features:   "MicroConcord is a concordance program specifically designed for language teachers and language learners, for use with personal computer"
Access:   Purchase of Licence required
Platform:   Windows (DOS)
   
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../ Microconcord (Mike Scott's site)
Developed by: Mike Scott and Tim Johns
Features:    
Access:   Free download
Platform:   Windows (DOS)
   
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../ MonoConc Pro
Developed by: Michael Barlow
Features:   List of features
Access:   Purchase of Licence required; Demo version available
Platform:   Windows
   
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../ Multiconcord
Developed by: EU-funded Lingua-Socrates project
Features:   "New Features: Advanced Search: Full Regular Expression search. Tag Search. Meta-tag Definitions. Save Workspace. Popular because of its ease-of-use and stability, this professional concordance program is widely used in commercial and educational settings."
Access:   Purchase of Licence required; Demo version available
Platform:   Windows
   
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../ Phrase Context
Developed by: Hans J. Klarskov Mortensen
Features:   Wordlists, collocations (span +-four) with T-score, Z-score and Mutual Information significance tests, corpus comparions using log-likelihood, clusters, concordancing of clusters, calculation of lexical density, sentence length etc. Export to PhraseContext's unique formats or XML-format. All results can be converted to txt-format for easy use in reports and papers.
Access:   Free 35-day evaulation version with full functionality. Cost €35,- for single user, great discounts for multiple users.
Platform:   32-bit Windows 98/MW/XP. (Not tested on NT/2000 but it should work because it makes very conservative use of Windows resources.)
   
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../ SPC - Simple Concordance Program
Developed by: Alan Reed
Features:   This FREE program lets you create word lists and search natural language text files for words, phrases, and patterns. SCP is a concordance and word listing program that is able to read texts written in many languages
Access:   Free download
Platform:   Mac and Windows
   
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../ TACT
Developed by: John Bradley, Ian Lancashire, Lidio Presutti, and Michael Stairs et al.
Features:   TACT is a text-analysis and retrieval system for MS-DOS that permits inquiries on text databases in European languages.
Access:   Free download
Platform:   Windows
   
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../ TextSTAT - Simple Text Analysis Tool
Developed by: Matthias Hüning, Dutch Linguistics, Free University of Berlin
Features:   "TextSTAT is a simple programme for the analysis of texts. It reads ASCII/ANSI texts (in different encodings) and HTML files (directly from the internet) and it produces word frequency lists and concordances from these files."
Access:   Free download (Open Source Project)
Platform:   Windows XP, Linux, MacOS X
   
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../ Wordsmith Tools
Developed by: Mike Scott
Features:   Lexical analysis software for data-driven learning and research
Access:   Purchase of Licence required; Demo Version available for download
Platform:   Windows
   
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../ Xaira
Developed by: e Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS)
Features:   General purpose XML search engine with Unicode support
Access:   Distributed free of charge (GNU General Public Licence) - Available through Xaira @ Sourceforge
Platform:   Fully-featured client for Windows only
   
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