AntConc started out as a relatively simple concordance program, but has been slowly progressing to become a rather useful text analysis tool. The program can run under any windows environment including Win 98/Me/2000/NT and XP, and also Linux.
AntConc contains the following tools that will be explained separately.
- The **Concordance** tool generates concordance lines (or KWIC: key word in context) lines from one or more target texts chosen by the user.
- Generating concordance plots can be achieved using the same actions as when using the **Concordance** tool. However, the **Concordance Plot** tool offers an alternative view of concordance lines.
- At any time a target file can be viewed in its original form using the **File View** tool.
- The **Clusters** tool is used to generate an ordered list of clusters that appear around a search term in the target files listed in the left frame of the main window.
- The **N-Grams** tool is used to generate an ordered list of n-grams that appear in the target files listed in the left frame of the main window. N-grams are word n-grams, and therefore, large files will create huge numbers of n-grams.
- The **Collocates** tool is used to generate an ordered list of collocates that appear near a search term in the target files listed in the left frame of the main window.
- The Word List feature is used to generate a list of ordered words that appear in the target files listed in the left frame of the main window.
- In addition to generating word lists, AntConc can compare the words that appear in the target files with the words that appear in a 'reference corpus' to generate a list of "Keywords", that are unusually frequent (or infrequent) in the target files.
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