Problems with Antconc analysing COCA

[Đỗ Tuấn Long]

         Dear Professor Anthony, 

I am currently analyzing the collocates of some prepositions in COCA. Antconc( version 3.5.7) works well with Word list, but it takes a lot of time to respond and it has been three times that Antconc stops working.

I use Window 10, 32 bit. 

Please suggest some ways to deal with such issues. 

Thank you so much for your kind help. 

      Yours sincerely, 

  Long Do   

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[Stephen Carradini]

I have a similar problem if I set the word range of the collocation too high -- if I do anything more than 10 words on either side of the target term and then click a collocate from the collocation tab to view the collocate in context, the program will stall without returning the collocates in context. On my computer, I think perhaps the program is being asked to do too much analysis with too little computing power. If I am wrong, I would love to know.

Stephen Carradini

[Laurence Anthony]

Hi Long Do  and Stephen,

I suspect that Stephen is correct and the processing (or more precisely the memory) limitation is causing the program to stall. One recommendation is that you use the 64 bit version of the program as this will be able to access the full memory of your computer, whereas the 32 bit version will be severely limited.

Let me know if this solution helps.

Regards,

Laurence.

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[Stephen Carradini]

Hi Long Do and Dr. Anthony, 

I found/made a workaround last night of a regex that approximates a KWIC search for collocates. I entered this into the collocation window after running the collocation analysis. I am new to regex, but this mostly works.

For one search term, where "professional" is the target term and "IEEE" is the collocate:

\b(?:ieee\W+(?:\w+\W+){0,20}?professional|professional\W+(?:\w+\W+){0,20}?IEEE)\b

For one search term that is a phrase, where "professional communication" is the target phrase and strategies is the collocate (I also have capital and lowercase searches running in this one--that's the [Ss] part): 

\b(?:[Ss]trategies\W+(?:\w+\W+){0,20}?[Pp]rofessional\s+[Cc]ommunication|[Pp]rofessional\s+[Cc]ommunication\W+(?:\w+\W+){0,20}?[Ss]trategies)\b

This is what I ended up using it for, just for reference: for two search terms that share an ending (Professional Communication and Technical Communication) in either upper or lower case, where development (uppercase or lowercase) is the collocate: 

 

\b(?:[Dd]evelopment\W+(?:\w+\W+){0,20}?([Tt]echnical|[Pp]rofessional)\s+[Cc]ommunication|([Tt]echnical|[Pp]rofessional)\s+[Cc]ommunication\W+(?:\w+\W+){0,20}?[Dd]evelopment)\b

There's a possibility I did this backwards (target vs collocate in swapped places), but that also may not matter, the way the regex is written. Like I said, I'm new to this. 

Stephen 

On Thursday, June 7, 2018 at 6:56:35 AM UTC-7, Đỗ Tuấn Long wrote:

[Stephen Carradini]

Ah, I made a mistake. I entered that regex into the Concordance window, not the collocation window. Sorry about that. 

Stephen 

On Thursday, June 7, 2018 at 6:56:35 AM UTC-7, Đỗ Tuấn Long wrote:

[Đỗ Tuấn Long]

  Dear Prof. Anthony, 

I used the 64 bit version and divided the corpus into smaller parts. It does work though it takes time. 

Thanks a bunch for your free software. 

  Yours sincerely, 

 Long Do

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