Getting started with text analysis
Links to tutorials and practical exercises, mostly written by users of Concordance.
These pages are full of ideas for doing text analysis. They were written for students and teachers, but many of the suggestions will be equally helpful for commercial users.
Introduction to text analysis using concordance software
written by Willard McCarty, King's College London.
- The basics of concording
- Method in text-analysis
- Markup
- Keywords and context - the Stephen corpus
- Corpus analysis of meaning - The O.J. Simpson Trial
- Text-analysis exercise - Speeches of Fidel Castro
- Text-analysis exercise - David Irving Trial transcripts
- Cleaning up your corpus
- BNC frequency list. Companion website for Geoffrey Leech, Paul Rayson and Andrew Wilson, Word Frequencies in Written and Spoken English (Longman, 2001). A handy list of word-frequencies in written and spoken British English may be found on their site at this link.
Using concordance software for language teaching
- Using concordance programs in the modern foreign languages classroom - an extensive discussion from the ICT4LT site, written by Marie-Noëlle Lamy and Hans Jørgen Klarskov Mortensen. With 14 practical activities for language teachers to use in class.
- Is there any measurable learning from hands-on concordancing? - Students get higher scores when using concordances to work out the meanings of new words
- Using Concordances to teach English - some brief suggestions by Peter Ruthven-Stuart
Get the software
Software download - Installation - Licensing
Find out more about Concordance
Features - Manual - User views - Screenshots - What's new
Learn text analysis
Getting started with text analysis - tutorials and practical exercises
Instructions for concordancing East Asian E-Texts using Concordance by Professor Marjorie Chan, Ohio State University. Use Concordance to handle Chinese, Japanese, and Korean texts on Windows 2000/XP.
Comments or questions: R.J.C.Watt
