13.412, Software: Text Analysis Program, Concordance 3.0

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-13-412. Thu Feb 14 2002. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 13.412, Software: Text Analysis Program, Concordance 3.0

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Date:  Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:25:31 -0000
From:  "Rob Watt" <r.j.c.watt at dundee.ac.uk>
Subject:  Concordance 3.0

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Date:  Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:25:31 -0000
From:  "Rob Watt" <r.j.c.watt at dundee.ac.uk>
Subject:  Concordance 3.0

I am pleased to announce the release of Version 3.0 of
Concordance.

For Windows 95/98/ME/NT4.0/2000/XP, Concordance is a text
analysis program which makes word lists and concordances from
electronic text.  First released in 1999, Concordance now has
registered users in 41 countries and is the leading software of its
kind.
	
Concordance lets you track all occurrences of any word and
examine meaning, word usage, vocabulary, and idiom.  Useful in
language learning, linguistics, language engineering, translation,
lexicography, natural language software development, and for
content analysis in many disciplines.  With a single click you can
turn your results into a Web Concordance ready for publishing on
the Web.
	
What's new in Version 3.0 - some highlights:
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	 -Five new ways of selecting words:
	     Phrases
	     Proximity search
	     Samples
	     Regular Expression search
	     References
	 -Make Indexes
	     Book-like indexing
	 -More control over words
	     Treat upper and lower case separately
	     Show duplicate words separately
	     Analyse characters instead of words
	 -New ways of sorting
	     Sort headwords by order of occurrence
	     Sort word endings using a string sort
	     Sort contexts by string before and string after headword
	-Improved language support
	    Including East Asian languages on Windows 2000/XP
	 -Improved display and control
	 -New file conversion tool: Filter a File
	 -User-definable HTML entity translation
	 -Speed improvements
	
	 For a fuller description of new features, see
	   http://www.rjcw.freeserve.co.uk/version30.htm
	
	
	Concordance - main features and abilities
	-----------------------------------------------------
	
You can make full concordances to texts of any size, or make fast
concordances, picking your selection of words from text.  View a
full word list, a concordance, and your original text simultaneously.
See frequencies and collocation counts for every word.  A
Lemmatiser lets you group together any words you choose. Make
concordances straight from any Windows program which can put
text on the Clipboard. Make concordances from multiple input files.
Stop Lists let you specify words to be omitted from your
concordance. Support is included for most Western languages and
character sets.  User-definable alphabet, reference system, and
contexts.  Very flexible search, selection, and sorting criteria.
Statistics on your text; word length charts.  Full print preview and
printing control. Built-in file viewer can display files of unlimited
size.  Built-in editor allows fast editing of files up to 16MB.
Extensive on-line help.

Concordance is fully copyrighted.  A 30-day free trial of the fully-	
working version is available for download, for personal evaluation
only. For use beyond the terms of the 30-day trial, a registratio
must be purchased from the author.   	
For further information and to downloadthe software, go to the
program's website at http://www.rjcw.freeserve.co.uk/


	Rob Watt	
R.J.C.Watt at dundee.ac.uk
Concordance software - gain better insight into e-texts
Download Concordance at http://www.rjcw.freeserve.co.uk/

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