Files in AntConc

[Cornelia Andersen]

Hi! I am using AntConc (4.3.1) to do a corpus-assisted study of linguistic data that I have collected from social media. My corpus is a single text file (.txt) which contains thousands of body texts from individual social media posts. Each individual text (post) is separated by blank lines in the file. I was wondering if there is any way that AntConc is able to recognise these as individual texts in e.g. collocate tool? Or do I need to upload separate files in order for AntConc to acknowledge the boundaries for individual texts?

Best, Cornelia

[Laurence Anthony]

Hi Cornelia,

AntConc has a special corpus loading feature in the Corpus Manager that lets you treat each row as a separate file. So, if your text file is organized as a set of rows, it should work. The example below would generate three files:

>>>
The cat sat on the mat.

The dog chased the cat.

The mouse ate the cheese.

>>>

I hope that helps!

Laurence.

On Thu, 5 Feb 2026 at 02:13, Cornelia Andersen <corneliaa...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi! I am using AntConc (4.3.1) to do a corpus-assisted study of linguistic data that I have collected from social media. My corpus is a single text file (.txt) which contains thousands of body texts from individual social media posts. Each individual text (post) is separated by blank lines in the file. I was wondering if there is any way that AntConc is able to recognise these as individual texts in e.g. collocate tool? Or do I need to upload separate files in order for AntConc to acknowledge the boundaries for individual texts?

Best, Cornelia

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