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[cloverleaf88]

when I search for "make-up" and I enter this search term, I also get compounds that are hyphenated (like Party-Make-up) as results for my search. I'd like to exclude them and exclusively look for "make-up". How do I do that?

[Laurence Anthony]

Hi,

In the AntConc default settings, hyphens are not considered as parts of words, so a "word" can be bounded by hyphens. If you change the token definition to include hyphens, then a word cannot be bounded by a hyphen. As a result, your search for "make-up" will produce the desired results, with "party-make-up" not being a hit.

I hope that helps.

Regards,
Laurence.

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On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:53 PM, cloverleaf88 <christin...@hotmail.com> wrote:

when I search for "make-up" and I enter this search term, I also get compounds that are hyphenated (like Party-Make-up) as results for my search. I'd like to exclude them and exclusively look for "make-up". How do I do that?

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[cloverleaf88]

thanks so much! that helped! :)

I wanted to ask you: Do you know a corpus-based study (in the field of linguistics), which used Antconc? I'm writing my thesis about Anglicisms and I've never worked with Antconc or other concordance programs before, so I'd like to see an example of application!

Kind Regards,
Christina.

[Laurence Anthony]

Christina,

AntConc is used in many, many research projects. I have a very small sample listed on my AntConc homepage (those that people asked me specifically to list), but most people just use the software and cite it. If you look at any research paper that uses corpus methods, you will find an example that you can use as a sample because AntConc is a general purpose corpus tool.

Here's a recent book in which AntConc was used quite extensively. Paul has written numerous very accessible papers using AntConc, WordSmith Tools, and other software that you could also use as a sample.

Using Corpora to Analyze Gender
By Paul Baker

I hope that helps.
Laurence.

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[cloverleaf88]

perfect, thank you very very much! :)

I've got a question on how to use the program.. Is it possible to have a comparison of two word lists. I mean that I can check whether the words from word list 2 appear in word list 1? both word lists were created by word.
I tried this way: "open files"-> I opened word list 1-> button "advanced"-> "load file" (word list 2).. it allowed me to see the words, but it did not count them.

Kind Regards,
Christina

On Friday, 28 March 2014 17:53:12 UTC+1, cloverleaf88 wrote:

[Laurence Anthony]

Hi Christina,

There is a roundabout way to do this. Use Word List 1 as your target corpus. Then, use Word List 2 in the "Use specific words below" or "Use stoplist below" Word List menu.

Using the "Use specific words below" option, you will find which words in Word List 1 appear in Word List 2. Using, the "Use stoplist below" option, you will find which words in Word List 1 do not occur in Word List 2.

I hope that helps.

Laurence

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Waseda University
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[cloverleaf88]

Hello,

I don't have these options ("use specific words below" and "use stoplist below") in the word list menu. Am I using an older version (Antconc 3.2.4.w)?
I'll attach a screenshot.

Kind Regards,
Christina


On Friday, 28 March 2014 17:53:12 UTC+1, cloverleaf88 wrote:

[Laurence Anthony]

You need to look in the word list *menu* (in tool preferences). You are looking at the advanced search box.

Saying that, I do recommend you use 3.4.1, which is the latest and best version.

Laurence.

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[cloverleaf88]

I understand the word list tool now. Thank you very much!! :)

I wanted to try out the advice you gave me about a change in the token definition, but I was not able to.
The problem is that I have a word list with many compounds (some of them are written as two or more words, some of them are written as one words and some of them are written with a hyphen. I'd like to consider all as one word. I'd guess I need to go to "global settings"-> "token (word) definition". What do I need to do here?

I'm sorry that I have so many questions.

Kind Regards,
Christina


On Friday, 28 March 2014 17:53:12 UTC+1, cloverleaf88 wrote:

[Laurence Anthony]

Hi,

In the token definition settings page, just include everything that you might want to consider to be a word. From what you say, that might mean simply appending the "-" character. Or, you could activate the whole "dash" class. Getting two separate words to be treated as a single word is impossible without some advanced tagging of your data. You won't be able to do that just within AntConc.

Laurence.

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Waseda University
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[cloverleaf88]

Thanks for your help :)

I wanted to add a new question:
In your videos you explain how to delete some sentences from your concordance list (manually). I'd like to see how many hits of a certain search item there are (without the sentences that I deleted). Is that possible?

Kind Regards,
Christina

On Friday, 28 March 2014 17:53:12 UTC+1, cloverleaf88 wrote:

[Marcela Robaina]

Hello, Mr. Anthony, and lots of thanks for you excelent tool.

I want to change the token definition to include hyphens, as you suggest, so that words are not bounded by hyphens. I found them in Global Settings, but can't see where to "escape" the hyphen from delimiting words.

I am using a Spanish corpus to find proper nouns, some of them with hyphens  (some even with more than one hyphen). I managed to find words starting with capital letters, but I also need to find "Bet-el" and "Viviente-que-me-ve" as one word.

Thank you for you time in answering this probably basic question.

Marcela Robaina

[Laurence Anthony]

Hi Marcela,

Just use the "append definition" box at the bottom of the token definition page and add the hyphen there. (Remember to activate the option, too).

Regards,

Laurence.

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[Marcela Robaina]

Thank you!

I also added other letters used in Spanish, just in case they are also needed.

This is the list: 

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ-áéíóúüÁÉÍÓÚÑ

Regards, Marcela

[Laurence Anthony]

Hi Marcela,

Thank you for the list. However, AntConc does not need them because it is based on Unicode letters, which means all letters of all languages are automatically recognized. It makes multi-lingual processing with AntConc very easy.

Regards,

Laurence.

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