Proplem with possessives

[Amal Alzahrani]

Dear Dr. Anthony, 

I am having a trouble with the software. In my study, I am trying to extract 4-word lexical bundle. However, the software counts possessive "s" as a separate token. I searched and can't find "token definition" to fix the problem. Is there a solution? or do I do every case of possessive manually by checking KWIC?

My AntConc version is 4.3.1

Many thanks

[Laurence Anthony]

Hi Amal,

I think you have two options:

1) I recommend you use a POS tagger to tag your data and then use the simple_word_pos_headword indexer in AntConc's corpus manager to split up the words.

2) When building a corpus without tagged data, you can edit the token definition in the corpus manager and set the apostrophe as a token character. If you do this, the words will no longer split in the results. But, all occurrences of an apostrophe will be treated as part of a word, which may not be what you want. 

I generally recommend option 1.

I hope that helps.

Laurence.

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[Amal Alzahrani]

Thank you so much for your response. 

I used TagAnt. However, when I loaded the output in AntConc, I got results with numbers, commas, and different characters.  The TagAnt showed that POS tagging helped identify possessive forms more clearly, but it also produced additional punctuation- and number-based n-grams that required filtering. Is there any way to fix this? or do you think I should write in my methodology that the tagged output was used specifically to check the possessive issue, while irrelevant n-grams containing punctuation, numerical references, and citation codes were excluded during manual cleaning.

[Laurence Anthony]

Hi,

If you use the latest version of AntConc, you don’t need to manually edit the list. Those punctuation based Ngrams will be automatically filtered out. 

Laurence 

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[Amal Alzahrani]

Thank you so much! I am very excited to try the new version of AntConc.