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Development Roadmap
Below are tentative plans for development of new tools and features in AntConc. If you would like see others, please feel free to suggest them on the AntConc Discussion List. Note that the grouping of items is mostly determined by how important I feel the tool/feature is for corpus research (especially in the classroom), and the time it takes to implement.
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Citing/Referencing AntConc
Use the following method to cite/reference AntConc according to the APA style guide:
Anthony, L. (YEAR OF RELEASE). AntConc (Version VERSION NUMBER) [Computer Software]. Tokyo, Japan: Waseda University. Available from http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/
For example if you download AntConc 3.2.2, which was released in 2011, you would cite/reference it as follows:
Anthony, L. (2011). AntConc (Version 3.2.2) [Computer Software]. Tokyo, Japan: Waseda University. Available from http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/
Note that the APA instructions are not entirely clear about citing software, and it is debatable whether or not the "Available from ..." statement is needed. See here for more details.
Online Help
The links below will take you to Google discussion groups on AntConc.
An online help system explaining all the main features of AntConc can be accessed at the links below.
Video Tutorials
Here are some video tutorials to help you learn how to use AntConc.
Getting Started
Tutorial 1: Concordance Tool - Basic Features
Tutorial 2: Concordance Tool - Advanced Features
Tutorial 3: Concordance Plot Tool - Basic Features
Tutorial 4: File View Tool - Basic Features
Tutorial 5: Clusters Tool - Basic Features
Tutorial 6: N-Grams Tool - Basic Features
AntConc Tutorial 7: File Collocates Tool - Basic Features
Tutorial 8: Word List Tool - Basic Features
Tutorial 9: Keyword List Tool - Basic Features
Monika Bednarek at the University of Sydney has also created some useful AntConc videos.
Text-Based Documentation
Step-By-Step Tutorials
If you would like to create a Tutorial in another language, I would be happy to show it here.
- AntConc 3.2.1 Tutorial (in English) by Warren Tang (Hiroshima University, Japan). Latest version available here.
- AntConc3.2.2 Tutorial (in Japanese) by Taku Kaneta and Akira Murakami (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan)
Translations of the Readme file
If you would like to translate the Readme file into another language, I would be happy to show it here.
- AntConc3.2.4 Readme File (in Korean) by Dr CK Jung (Centre for Corpus Research, Yonsei University, Korea)
- AntConc3.2.2.1 Readme File (in Korean) by Dr CK Jung (Centre for Corpus Research, Yonsei University, Korea)
- AntConc3.2.1 Readme File (in Korean) by Dr CK Jung (Centre for Corpus Research, Yonsei University, Korea)
- AntConc3.2.1 Readme File (in Chinese) by Xiong Qing'an (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China)
- AntConc3.1 Readme File (in German) by Regine Muller
Other resources
Brown Corpus Frequency List. This can be imported into AntConc to create keyword lists.
Yasumasa Someya's lemma list can be accessed below. This can be imported into AntConc to create lemma word lists.
Selected books/papers/websites related to AntConc
I am now starting a list of books/research papers/websites that discuss or use AntConc extensively.
If you have used AntConc in your study, please send me the information (e.g. author, title, source (APA style), URL),
and I would be happy to list it here.
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| 2004 | L Anthony (2004). AntConc: A Learner and Classroom Friendly, Multi-Platform Corpus Analysis Toolkit. Proceedings of IWLeL 2004: An Interactive Workshop on Language e-Learning, pp. 7-13 |
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| 2005 | L Anthony (2005). AntConc: design and development of a freeware corpus analysis toolkit for the technical writing classroom Professional Communication Conference, 2005. IPCC 2005. Proceedings, 10-13 July 2005 Page(s): 729 - 737. |
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| 2005 | Diniz, L. (2005). COMPARATIVE REVIEW: TEXTSTAT 2.5, ANTCONC 3.0, and COMPLEAT LEXICAL TUTOR 4.0, Language Learning & Technology, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 22-27. |
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| 2006 | L Anthony (2006). Developing a Freeware, Multiplatform Corpus Analysis Toolkit for the Technical Writing Classroom. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication Vol. 49:3, pp. 275-286. |
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| 2008 | Craig, E.C. (2008) N + P Clusters in Freshman Composition: A lexico-grammatical approach to academic vocabulary for second language writers. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, The University of Georgia, Athens. |
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| 2008 | Pecorari, D. (2008). Repeated Language in Academic Discourse: The Case of Biology Background Statements, Nordic Journal of English Studies, vol. 7 No. 3, 2008, pp. 9-33 |
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| 2008 | Wawra, Daniela. 2008. Public Relations im Kulturvergleich: Die Sprache der Geschaftsberichte US-amerikanischer und deutscher Unternehmen (in German). English title: Public Relations in intercultural comparison: The language of the annual reports of US- and German companies. Frankfurt am Main et al., Peter Lang. |
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| 2011 | Slideshare tutorial on AntConc. (Non-English) |
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| 2011 | Wikipedia entry for AntConc |
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| 2011 | Tutorial for using AntConc by Shin Ishikawa (in Japanese) |
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| 2012 | Wilkinson, Michael (2012). The best freeware corpus analysis program for translators?, in Translation Journal, Volume 16, No 2. Online at: http://www.bokorlang.com/journal/60corpus.htm |
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