AntConc is a Windows solution for computational text analysis. Users can display all occurrences of a specific phrase across their personal document database. Additionally, there are instruments to investigate internal word relationships and connections.

Main capabilities

Like in WordSmith, the integrated Concordance tool helps you examine linguistic patterns and better understand the underlying context. An option to analyze semantic properties of the selected text fragment is included as well.

It is possible to generate a comprehensive word frequency list. This functionality is intended for identifying key vocabulary, comparing content across different documents and analyzing trends in language over time.

Advanced operations

Users can detect collocations for individual words and highlight the connections, revealing contextual meanings and associations between terms. This analysis method might be advantageous when studying language patterns, phraseology and idiomatic expressions.

You are able to find unusually rare or frequent words compared to a reference corpus. Moreover, texts from different genres or authors may be interposed to work out stylistic differences or specific discourse markers.

Features

free to download and use;
designed for performing various data analysis tasks;
you can calculate the frequency of specific words in large text documents;
it is possible to learn more about complex language patterns;
compatible with all modern versions of Windows.