AntConc 3.4.0 Tutorial 1: Getting Started
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- This screencast shows you how to download and get started with AntConc.
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I defended my master's thesis a week ago and I wanted to tell you that your software was a huge help in my study. I was pretty bewildered when I first opened AntConc but your tutorials are very clear and I immediately understood how it worked. Thank you for everything!
That's really great news, Bombonierka! Congratulations!
It was really helpful, we are using this tool in my ELT department in Turkey! Thanks
Great! You might also want to try the new AntConc 4. I have a RUclips tutorial series for that, too.
very interesting, I have just started my MA in English linguistic and my first class was about corpus and corpora, and a project my professor gave me was about Shakespeare in Corpora. Quite useful video, thanks Laurence
Great! Good luck with your research.
very nice tutorial!
from:Brazil.
sir how can i get the statistics of all tags in Antconc
Hi. You'll need to use tagged data. Perhaps use my TagAnt tool to tag the data and then use that. Watch my tutorial video on working with tagged data as well.
Hi sir. I hope you are fine. Sir I have started my MPhil in English Linguistics. We are studying Corpus Linguistics in our second semester. I am intended to do my research in Corpus Linguistics. A Corpus based study. Your lecture are quite fruitful. It helped me a lot. But sir I'm worried about how to make reference Corpus. I need your help sir. I'll be grateful. I'm from Pakistan.
Very good effort dear.
Thank you
Hey Laurence, thank you so much for this. It really helps a lot. I have a question and would appreciate your help. I'm writing a term paper for an MA course in morphology; can I search for words which end in the suffix -er? In other words, can I search for words which end in -er, excluding any -er that is an original part of the word?
I watched the tutorials, but I couldn't find a way. I'm sorry for the trouble. Many thanks again.
+Hani Na'eem The simple way is *er, but I think you are talking about words like "bigger", "smaller". In this case, I think you need to tag your texts and then search for some kind of comparative form. See my TagAnt program for an easy-to-use tagger.
+Laurence Anthony Thanks a lot. I will check TagAnt. However, I'm looking for agent -er suffixes like "player, baker, etc.". Anyhow, thank you very much. Your software made it a lot easier for me. I know I'm grateful.
+Hani Na'eem If you have a list of the words you want, you could just search from them all in one go using the file list search function. Or, use *er as I suggested earlier.
Have you tried *er
Otherwise, you could use the regex option but you would then need to learn the syntax.
Laurence
Hi Laurance Anthony. I want to learn and get started with AntConc for corpus analysis. I have seen the first tutorial, but I am not able to find your website because the link is not given...I tried to follow what you said but could not find it. I clicked on the link given under the video it also shows options to download the software but there are too many versions. I don't know from where to start and which one to download?? Can you please help??
Hi, Ambreen. All the latest versions are listed here: www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/
I recommend you download the official version that matches your computer hardware (Win, Mac, Linux).
More than interesting!
Very interesting! Thank you! Does it work on German texts, too? Or are there any difficulties, e.g. because of the German inflections? And when I let the programme count the types and tokens, does it count only those in the marked file? Or are the over one million tokens from all files shown on the left together?
Yes, AntConc works fine with German texts. Just remember to set the character encoding of your text files in the Global Settings. The default is UTF-8. You might need to use ISO-8852-1 (Latin 1).
thank you so much
Thanks Sir .. regarding the text which we have to feed into AntConc .. is is a coherent text? or separate sentences are also possible?
Hi I am not able to download on my mac.. I have my assignment due but it’s not getting downloaded.. can u pls guide me?
A bit late (!), but try AntConc 4x, which should work very nicely on a Mac.
Good video :)
Thank you!
hello anthony, I installed antconc on my macbook, but I couldn't find the bar consists of "file, global settings, tool preference, and help". I tried to uninstall and re-install it for several times but it resulted the same. need ur help, thanks
Hi, On Mac OS X, the file and other menus appear at the top of the screen (as with all other Mac OS X applications).
You saved my life 😌
Hello Mr. Laurence, this tool looks perfect for my purposes, but both versions I downloaded on Mac appear to be missing the bar that reads "file," etc., directly above "corpus files." as a result I cannot access my plain text files. I'm currently trying to use your "OS X 10.7-10.12 (3.4.4)" version. Any thoughts?
Daniel Burke Just look at the top of your screen. The menu bar is there on Mac computers.
Thanks so much!
Hello Dear Laurence, I liked all your tutorials about AntConc, but I am missing some to explain about the AntPConc...
I have a problem. My files won't loading the software. I can see them on the left list after I chose them but they won't appear when I check them with "file view". Do you know what I do wrong? I am using a Mac, version 3.4.4. AntConc and I transformed all pdf files into .txt. files. Thanks for your help in advance! Kind regards Laura
I suspect the encoding of your converted files does not match the default setting in AntConc, which is UTF-8. Try using my EncodeAnt program to auto-detect and convert the encodings to the correct one.
Hi Mr. Laurance Anthony, I'm trying to download your AntConc and ProtAnt software on my Macbook but it's saying that both programmes cannot be opened because it is from an unidentified developer. How do I safely download your software onto my Mac without this message coming up? Kindest, Shivali
hello,first thanks for a marvelous program,but I have some problem that my MacBook Air is with OS X10.14.5,it seems that I could not find the place to download right version.
Hi Huanhuan Hu! Just download the latest version for Mac and that should work.
Hi do you have any idea if my audio is in WAV format. How do i convert to TXT?
You'll have to do an Internet search for that.
I wish to check the level of formality in the texts that I would be receiving from students as part of my PhD research.Would Ant Conc be helpful to me in getting me a formality score?
Hi Gurmeet! AntConc could be used to analyze the texts to arrive at a set of features that define formality. But, you would have to create your own formality measure based on this analysis. If you can find an existing formality score, you might also be able to use AntConc to rank each text based on the features that you find. But, AntConc is not a profiling tool. You might find AntWordProfiler works better if you have a fixed list of single-word features that you want to count. But, I expect a more advanced tool will be needed to properly profile all texts based on a sophisticated formality measure. I hope that helps!
question about arabic corpus. Thanks
What is the question?
@@AntLabJPN First of all thank you for your reaction, I am preparing my thesis on the analysis of an Arabic corpus. I wonder if AntConc has this ability to process Arabic code without problems. I discovered this great application recently.
@@nad-im6629 AntConc 4 works perfectly with Arabic so I recommend you use that.
@@AntLabJPN okay thank you very much, hapy to be one of users.
@@nad-im6629 That's great. You can find a complete set of tutorial videos for AntConc 4 here on RUclips.
Hello,
I downloaded this software to use it with the british national corpus. I have a macbook and the texts of the corpus are in html, not in text as it appears in your video. So when I try to open the texts, I can't see the real text, I only see the code. My question is what I have to do to see the text.
Thanks
Hi. To hide the xml tags, just go to the Global settings->Tag settings, and activate the "Hide Tags" option.
Now, it works. Thank you very much
i have a problem, i cannot found the untagged version of Browncorpus, the version that i have is tagged. so, all my texts, results are in codes, even i tried hide tags and choose UTF-8 in settings it still didnt work, please help, thanks for your help in advance
Hi, I typed "brown corpus untagged" into Google and the first hit gave me the exactly corpus you wanted.
Hello, I am wondering why I cannot open the file that I downloaded from BNC, and the format is XML, so can AntConc only work on the txt format? When I click the file and try to find the content, there is nothing to match and to find. So i am wondering how to solve this problem? thanks.
Hi Edward, you should be able to read your BNC file. Just make sure that the encoding is UTF8 (the AntConc default). Also, you can hide the tags with the tag preferences menu.
I hope that helps. Laurence
@@AntLabJPN Hi Anthony, thanks for your reply. I tried lots of times but it still doesn't work, i am using the version 3.5.7 Windows 64 bits, and the BNC corpora was downloaded from www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/ and it's called British National Corpus, XML edition
. Thanks.
Hi, thanks for this tutorial. I am actually having a problem with Antconc. I am trying to use the Software on Windows. I had the version 3.5.8 I deleted it and wanted to use the newer Version 3.5.9. But unfortunately now both versions are not launching.... Could you please tell me what might be the reason for this problem?
Hi,
I suggest you restart your computer. All versions run completely independently so they should not affect each other.
From where did You get the brown corpus, which you inserted in the software and analyzed later
Hi, I just searched for "Brown Corpus download" on Google and the first hit was: archive.org/details/BrownCorpus
Hello Laurence, I have a problem with AntConc (on Windows) and I hope you'll help me fix it. I need to use it for my MA thesis!
I need to use it for Russian. I saved all the files in .txt and UTF-8, but the software does not recognise the files. I tried all the cyrillic options in Global Settings, but it does not work. What can I do?
I see you emailed me directly. So, I have replied there. The answer is to make sure the file names are not using non-English characters.
I've tried using antconc 3.5.7 64-bit version on my file (UTF-8 encoding) and it couldn't finish the file view function. Although when i switched to an older version (3.2.4), it worked fine for the same file. Just wanted to let you know that there might be some bug with the current version.
Oh, actually there is a problem with a 64-bit version of the programme. 3.5.7 32-bit works fine for me on 64-bit Windows 10.
Hi. The default encoding in AntConc 3.2.4 is Latin 1 (cp-1252). In AntConc 3.0 onwards is UTF-8. I suspect this is the problem. Try switching the encoding in 3.5.7 to cp-1252 and try again. Better, just save your files in UTF-8, which is now the international standard for corpus work.
Hi. The file was in UTF-8, so were the settings of the programme set to. It seems like the problem is with the 64-bit version of it. I can view the text and do the "math" in the 32-bit version, while the 64-bit one shows me nothing. Switching the encodings hasn't helped me, too. The "File View" tab shows nothing, although the processing is done. Perhaps there're some others changes to be made in the settings, that I'd missed, but the 3.5.7 32-bit version worked fine right after the download, that is why I'm assuming there is something wrong with the 64-bit version.
I guess, you need more feedback from other users to figure it out.
Anyway I was able to use the programme and got my results for which I'm very thankful for.
And thank you for fast response!
Thank you for the update. In theory, the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of AntConc should always be identical in every way. So, if you can use the 32-bit version but not the 64-bit version, there is something wrong with that. Can you confirm that you are on a 64-bit machine? If not, of course, the 64-bit version will not work.
Oh, it's 64-bit for sure. I run Windows 10 64-bit with an Intel i5-7400 CPU.
I understand that they should be identical, that is why I've decided to report to you about this problem.
Hey Laurence, where do I find this Brown corpus or maybe some analogue for technical English?
+Vladimir Sklyanov Google is your friend. Just type "Brown Corpus download" and the second hit provided a link.
Hi Laurence. Could you please provide a link to a site where the Brown corpus is available from? I am having great difficulty finding one. thank you so much
I have downloaded a zip file, which claims to be the Brown corpus, from archive.org/details/BrownCorpus, but it contains only files in an unknown format, named from 'ca01' to 'cr09', each 20 kb in size. They all are greyed out when I try to open them in AntCon.
Dear Laurence,
I have converted my pdfs into txt format with Automator on Mac. It seems that after uploading the files into AntConc, the programme does not read any of them in File View. Any idea why this happens? Thank you so much in advance.
Kind regards,
Anita
I don't know what encoding your text files are. That is probably the problem. AntConc uses UTF-8 as default. I recommend using my AntFileConverter program. This will convert the files to the correct encoding and should work well. Try that.
Dear Laurence,
Yes, that seems to be the problem indeed. Unfortunately, Automator does not allow to choose the encoding. Thank you very much.You've been very helpful.
Kind regards,
Anita
Sorry to bother you again, but I have downloaded your file converter for Mac (the latest and the older version) and it does not run on my computer. I use OS X 10.8.5, so it's quite old. Might this be the issue? The older version did not run either, though... Thank you.
where can I save the converted files with you converter program? :)
Hello,Can Antconc look for verbs only?
Sure. But, you need to tag your data first. Try my TagAnt tool to do that.
***** Thank you sir. It worked!
great!
the site doen't appear clear ,can you write here the site?
Just type AntConc into the Google search box. My site is first on the list.
can we add pashto language corpora to Antconc?
Probably. The only limitation is that it needs to be a left-to-right language. To simplify things, remember to save your files in the AntConc default encoding, which is UTF-8.
Hello, thank you for exploring this cool software, i want to use it to analyze Chinese text, but i found it doesn't work well. it couldn't separate words correctly . i want to know is it AntConc`s shortcome or i do some wrong with my file. hope to get your answer.
You need to use another tool to separate the words. Try my AntSegmentAnt tool. It's freely available on my website.
Thank you very much, i downloaded the AntSegmentAnt, and it works very well. i copy the result to another txt, than read it by AntConc, it also works very well. it is help a lot. sorry i got another question, the score of collocates, i mean "Stat", i know it is from T score, and MI score, but i want to know the Mathematical formulas， how "Stat" come from, or work with T score and MI score.
The stat is either MI or T depending on the option you choose. It simply shows as "Stat" meaning "Statistic".
thank you very much. i found it from tool preferences, and the default is MI. it is so cool!! thanks a lot !!
You're welcome!
Laurance Anthony, how can ı ascape this problem . Can you help me please?
please the name of his wesite
www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/
Hi Laurence, I have a problem for your help. when I load a corpus which is a word corpus of Chinese into AntConc, it didn't loaded correctly into the software, there is just massy code left in the FileView, so what should i do to solve this matter?
Is your data saved in the UTF-8 character encoding. If not, resave it as UTF-8 and then everything should work fine.
it works! Thank u very much !!!
Mr. Laurence, I'd like to try this tool for my corpus-based paper. But when I try to view the file by clicking File View, it cannot seem to read the file. I already changed the Global Setting so ALL files can be read but nothing changes (My files are in .doc and .docx). How do I fix this? Thank you
Check your file encodings. AntConc defaults to UTF-8.
It's at UTF-8 but it doesn't work.
:-(
OK. Try loading a simple file like "The cat sat on the mat". See if you can see that. If you can, then compare that with your main file.
my main file is about 40,000 words. It's a corpus. It is not possible? What is the maximum word count allowed?
I tried it. The result is the same. Anyway, thank you.