Where in my files does the collocate results take place?

[Matilda]

I'm researching environmental governance changes and is particularly interested in collocating. When I get a collocate result it is possible to see in how many texts the collocate occur (column five "Texts"). I am interested to see in what texts these results take place. I know that I can compute this word by word, but can I get the source/the texts of the whole collocate result?

For example: "pollution" co-occurs 309 times in 124 documents and "discharges" co-occurs 265 times in 92 documents with "concern". Is there an easy way to find where these co-occurrences takes place? I like to know how many time each collocate occurs in each file in my corpus and the name of that file.

[Mike]

Hi Matilda

One way would be to double-click the number in the Texts column of the
collocate window (e.g the 124 for pollution); that makes Concord order
the concordances to as to move all those concordance lines to the top.
Then way over to the right of that concordance listing you can see the
source text filenames where those hits occurred. Does that answer your
query?

Cheers -- Mike

[Matilda]

Hi Mike,
Thanks, this partly helps me, but by doing like you suggest on all collocate results would take ages. I had hoped that there would be an easier way to compute the source text filenames on ALL collocates. I have 1 539 collocates that I would like to track - where and how many times each collocate occur in my files.

/Matilda

[Mike Scott]

OK, I will see if I can build in a breakdown facility into Concord.

Cheers -- Mike