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AntConc Tutorial

AntConc 1 KWIC SORT Concordance Plot Clusters Wordlist (lemmatization) Collocate Keyword List

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AntConc Concordance Concordance Concordance KWIC(Key Word In Context) Node Word

Search TermStart The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes red 2

Red 51 red

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KWIC Sort [ 0 ] 1R, 2R 1L, 2L (Node Word) R , L A shock 5L 4L of very bright 3L 2L 1L red hair grew low over his NW 1R 2R 3R 4R 5R

red red 1R, 2R, 3R red (1R)red hair (2R) (3R) 3 [ ]

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 Regular Expression

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shoo*t shot shoot shooooot shoo+t shoot shooooot shot books? book books s.t sit sat set

w+ d+

is|am|are isamare

s(a|i)t sat sit

s[ai]t sat sit ^I I me$ me

s[^e]t sat sit set

w+sw+ in into sin binb in

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CC CD DT EX FW IN JJ JJR JJS LS MD NN NNS NP NPS PDT POS PP PPS RB RBR RBS RP SYM TO UH VB VBD VBG VBN VBP VBZ VH VHD VHG VHN VHP VHZ VV VVD VVG Coordinating conjunction Cardinal number Determiner Existential there Foreign word Preposition or subordinating conjunction Adjective Adjective, comparative Adjective, superlative List item marker Modal Noun, singular or mass Noun, plural Proper noun, singular Proper noun, plural Predeterminer Possessive ending Personal pronoun Possessive pronoun Adverb Adverb, comparative Adverb, superlative Particle Symbol to Interjection Be-verb, base form Be-verb, past tense Be-verb, gerund or present participle Be-verb, past participle Be-verb, non-3rd person singular present Be-verb, 3rd person singular present Have, base form Have, past tense Have, gerund or present participle Have, past participle Have, non-3rd person singular present Have, 3rd person singular present Other verbs, base form Other verbs, past tense Other verbs, gerund or present participle
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VVN VVP VVZ WDT WP WP$ WRB

Other verbs, past participle Other verbs, non-3rd person singular present Other verbs, 3rd person singular present Wh-determiner Wh-pronoun Possessive wh-pronoun Wh-adverb

There are many problems facing the Monarchy. There are many problems facing the Monarchy . EX VBP JJ NNS VVG DT NN SENT There be many problem face the monarchy .

AntConc s be -ing be V[]G is VBZ be eating VVG eat be bbes bbesw+sV.G -ing w+sV.G

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Concordance Plot

2 Concordance Plot Concordance The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes The Memoir of Sherlock Holmes(), The Return of Sherlock Holmes () 3

red red The Red-headed League

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Clusters

chunk, cluster Clusters

Concordance Cluster Size Min. Size Max. Size Min 2, Max 4 2 4 2 3 4 cluster

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Word List
Word List Word List

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KWIC

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Sort by Word End

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/ treat all data as lowercase

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(lemmatization)

havehashadhavingve Tool Preferences

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Category Word List Lemma List Options Open

e_lemma_no_hypen.txt e_lemma_no_hypen.txt http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/antconc_index.html e_lemma.txt

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Use lemma list file Apply

Start Word List be amarebebeen

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Collocates
Collocates Collocates

Search Term Holmes Start

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Holmes Holmes Collocate KWIC

Holmes Window Span 5L5R Holmes 5 5L 5 5R

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Start

Sort by Word List Min. Collocate Frequency

Tool PreferencesCollocates MI T

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Keyword List
Keyword List Tool PreferencesKeyword List Reference Corpus Options Choose Files

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Show negative keywords Apply

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Keyword List Start Keyness

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 Word List

Tool PreferencesKeyword List Keyness

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