Assistance with Extracting Citation Patterns Using AntConc (v4.3.1)

[YOSHIHIRO KAWAKAMI]

I hope this message finds you well.

I am currently working on my MA dissertation and would like to analyse the types of citations used by students—particularly focusing on integral and non-integral citations, including both single and multiple authors.

To do this, I’ve been trying to extract citation patterns such as (XXXX) — for example, (2002), (2004), etc. Ideally, I would like to search for the pattern XX), as this would help capture both author-date references and citations in brackets.

However, despite trying several patterns such as (* -, (20*, and \(\d{4}\), I have not been able to retrieve accurate results.

I am currently using AntConc (Windows Installer, version 4.3.1) on my microsoft surface.
Would you be able to advise me on how to structure the search query to find these citation patterns effectively?

Thank you in advance for your support—I look forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes,
Yoshi

[Laurence Anthony]

Hi Yoshi,

My guess is that you have not included the parenthesis as part of the token definition when you built your corpus. If you *append* the opening and closing parenthesis to the token definition in the corpus manager when you build your corpus, you'll be able to then use a simple regex to find all the years:

\(\p{N}+\)

I hope that helps!

Laurence.

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[YOSHIHIRO KAWAKAMI]

Hello Laurence,

Thank you for your advice — I’ll make sure to put it into practice.
I also discovered that I can find them in section 3.5.9.

Thanks again.

Best wishes,
Yoshi

2025年6月6日(金) 6:33 Laurence Anthony <antho...@gmail.com>:

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