What reviewers say about Concordance...
'In this most recent evolution of the state of the art, Concordance brings us concordancing in a Windows environment with even more capabilities you've wished you could do at a keystroke, plus web integration.'
'The program is intuitive to use and exceedingly well documented'
'The user is assisted by one of the most comprehensive, well thought out, and easily accessible set of online help documents I have ever come across in any application.'
'With the appearance of this program, compelling applications of concordancing have come a step forward toward availability to "the rest of us." More casual users will find Concordance to be a flexible, versatile, and easy-to-use program that can concordance very large text files quickly.'
'An excellent research tool, possibly the most sophisticated available.'
-- Read the whole review by Vance Stevens from CALICO Software Review
'One of the first features to stand out is the software's ability to work on any size text extremely quickly.'
'One of the optimal features of Concordance... is its extremely friendly interface.'
'The program is also very accommodating in terms of foreign languages and special characters.'
-- Read the whole review from Computers and Texts, published by CTI Textual Studies, Oxford, as an Acrobat (PDF) file - or go to the journal's contents page
Concordance ... 'is probably the concordance software at the moment which has most features. It can make a full concordance from very large texts, and it can make "fast concordances" of a single word on the basis of a very large corpus. It is also possible to import a student's essay, investigate word frequencies and edit the text immediately.'
- from Hans Jørgen Klarskov Mortensen's comparisons of concordance programs (original in Danish).
'Concordance has a powerful user interface and a rich set of ways in which you can view and interact with a concordance. Picture being able to click on any line in this list and see, in a floating secondary window, all of the host paragraph's text so you can make contextual sense of the word. This makes it very easy for you to identify those missing glossary terms that always seem to get overlooked and find the place(s) in the book where you've defined them. Concordance is fast, too... Other compelling features include the ability to build a concordance on any size document (up to your PC's disk and memory limits); user-definable reference systems; various word search, sort, and select options...'
- from The Naked PC, issue 3.19 - or go to their current front page
What users say...
... about the program's abilities:
'I recently downloaded Concordance. Brilliant idea. It's like magic happening right before your eyes when I do content analysis. Really facilitates getting to the heart of meaning.'
'I did a Web search for concordance tools, found several, evaluated all of them, and yours was head and shoulders above the rest. '
'Your program is amazingly documented. There is so much there it is easy to overlook its features.'
'The ability to save the results as HTML pages is certainly a very useful function.'
'I tried the demo. The following is my impression after using it -
i. The user interface is good and easily accessible.
ii. The text processing speed is awesome.
iii. The capability to get any size of data is also admirable.
iv. The ability to publish the result to web makes me excited.'
'Your Concordance is very well designed. As I have to run a number of tests on language data, I was thrilled to find the download site. Also, because I am presently so busy, I don't have a great deal of time to waste on the "learning curve factor." Concordance is going to save me a lot of time and headaches. Well done!'
'I like your product. I helped to develop a concordance product in the 1970s in PL/1 when I was a progammer at Cornell U, and was surprised by the significant help it provided to researchers. Your product has great features and works quickly. Congratulations. '
'I want to congratulate you for the user-friendly functionality of Concordance. It is really a pleasure to work with. I bought your program out of frustration with using another concordance program... which was difficult to use. I especially appreciate your program's Lemmatiser, which permits me to group thematically related words in order to query their appearance in a text.'
...about its wide variety of uses:
'I've been having fun with Concordance. It's a very useful tool, and I can use it for text analyses in an industrial environment.' - language engineer
'I have been trying out your concordance package and have been very impressed with its flexibility, especially in handling very large numbers of words and occurrences.' - drama researcher
'My background is in the marketing of industrial equipment. I have started to use your program to analyze various sources of information about my industry and monitor the occurrences of particular words and phrases... I thoroughly enjoy working with Concordance and have become confident that is a very useful marketing tool... it also amazed me to see how the concordances can stimulate ideas.' - marketing director
'I have been testing your programme Concordance for two weeks now and am considering buying it because it can be useful in my job as a translator.'
'I am trying out your Concordance application (...I love it, so far) -... I am a PDF help author...I am going to purchase your application on-line as soon as I finish writing this e-mail.'
'I recently purchased Concordance and am delighted with it. I use it for a somewhat odd purpose: computer forensics. Essentially I examine hard drives seeking evidence of certain specified activities.'
'Your response motivated me to download your "Concordance" and after an hour I had my first concordance of John's Gospel.' - biblical scholar
'Your concordance software, which I have just ordered, is very fine. I will use it to help me edit parts of theCanterbury Tales in such a way that stressed vowels are spelled consistently (distinguishing long vs. short and high vs. low mid) and vowel letters having no equivalent in the pronunciation of a regularly alternating weak/strong meter are omitted.'
'Concordance is still a great joy to work with.' - language teacher
'I've been working with a couple of groups of students on Concordance for 6 or 7 weeks now, and it is going well.' - teacher of humanities computing course.
'I like your Concordance quite a bit. It definitely does what I asked for.' - computer magazine editor
...and finally:
"It really has saved us days of work - possibly weeks". - A professor of psychology
'I just wanted to applaud you and your concordance software. After a few hours of learning its functioning capabilities I'm simply amazed. One incredible piece of work! Highly recommended!'
'Bravo! Extremely useful.'
'This is a nice piece of work - I have registered.'
'Thanks for the marvelous program!'
All the comments by users of Concordance on this page have been made in e-mails to the author, 1999-2004.
Read the manual here online to assess the software's capabilities in detail.
Comments or questions: R.J.C.Watt
