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At the end of learning Corpus Linguistics the last time, we were briefly introduced to concordancer. In this entry, we will further discuss the topic. Concordance is a collection of the occurences of word-form or an index of word-form. Concordancer is the software that analyzes the occurances of collections of the word-form. Be mindful that concordancer does not translate, but to analyze.
What concordancer does?
· Make wordlists. Can be arranged.
· Can include frequency and percentage of words.
· Make wordlists of occurrence of each word in its context. Contexts can be selected and arranged.
· Can handle large texts.
· Can save and print the selected wordlist
Concordancer is widely used in language teaching and learning as well as data mining and data clean-ups. There are many other places where concordancer is helpful such as literary and linguistics scholarship. Some Major Concordance Program for PC are the Oxford Concordance Program (OCP) and Word Cruncher. They are widely used, reliable, flexible and straightforward.
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