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News
Unicode
We are hoping to have a unicode version ready early in the New Year
New manual options
In 2009, we will be offering two options for the manual: a pdf file on the CDROM or a printed and bound version.
Selected citation
Moropa, K. 2007. Analysing the English-Xhosa parallel corpus of technical texts with Paraconc: a case study of term formation processes. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 25, 2.
Conferences
Workshop on ParaConc at the IATIS conference in Melbourne in July 2009
DESCRIPTION
ParaConc is a bilingual or multilingual concordancer that can be used in contrastive analyses, language learning, and translation studies/training. ParaConc is well-known and is being used at a variety of institutions around the world.
Pricing. The (educational) price of the software will be $95 (see the ParaConc flyer). A two-year 15-user site licence is $750. To order, visit www.athel.com or send email to orders@athel.com.
Current users can send email to Athelstan to receive the latest build (269). A pdf version of the manual is available.
Users can join the ParaConc mailing list.
A demo is now available. (In the demo the number of hits is restricted to 150 and the results cannot be saved or printed.)
Brief Overview of Features
Alignment:
Utiltity for semi-automatic alignment.
Searching:
Simple text search; Regular expression search; Tag search; and Parallel Search
Translations:
Search for potential translations in results window. Also Hot Words feature suggests possible translations and collocates.
Font Support:
ParaConc can now be used more easily with Chinese, Japanese and Korean
Collocate Frequency Span:
Collocates of spans from 1L-1R to 4L-4R
Collocate highlighting:
Collocates of the search term are highlighted in colour in the concordance lines. This allows the combination of (visual) collocate frequency information with the usual presentation of concordance patterns.
Advanced Sort :
Primary and Secondary Sorting of results. Advanced Sort option allows primary, secondary and tertiary sorting. Also sorting on ends of words, sorting according to the value of tracked tags.
Advanced Collocation:
Program counts collocations in various ways. A useful Span feature has been introduced. Once a search has been completed, the user chooses a span (2 to 5 words) and the software calculates the most frequent collocations of the specified size containing the search word.
Save As:
Various saving options, including Save As Html file, which gives a coloured picture of the search results for display on the web.
Other resources
Compiling Japanese-Russian Aligned Parallel Corpus