Antconc Corpus ❲90% Top❳
: Finds words that have a statistically significant tendency to occur near each other, helping to identify semantic associations.
: Counts the frequency of every word in the corpus, typically sorted from most to least frequent.
: Provides a visual representation of where a word appears throughout a file or entire corpus, highlighting clusters or specific areas of density. Antconc Corpus
AntConc is a free, multi-platform developed by Laurence Anthony. It is used by linguists, educators, and researchers to perform "distant reading" by analyzing patterns across large collections of digital texts. Core Capabilities
: Compares the frequency of words in your "Target Corpus" against a "Reference Corpus" (a larger, general-language dataset) to identify words that are uniquely characteristic of your specific texts. Teach-A-Tool Series: AntConc Corpus Analysis Tool : Finds words that have a statistically significant
: Shows the full raw text of a file with specific search terms highlighted.
: Identifies recurring sequences of words (e.g., "in the middle of") that appear together frequently. AntConc is a free, multi-platform developed by Laurence
The software is organized into seven primary tools, accessible via tabs at the top of the interface: