Twitter: CasualConcCasualConc is a concordance program that runs natively on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard or later. It is designed for casual use (preliminary analysis or non-research purposes, though I use this for my own research). CasualConc can handle a corpus with 1 million tokens at reasonable speed. If your corpus has more than 10 million tokens, it can be very slow depending on how many hits it returns (based on my machine Mac mini C2D 2.0GHz). It can generate kwic concordance lines, word clusters, collocation analysis, and word count. This program is only tested with English text just because that is the only language I can understand other than Japanese (though I heard from some people that CasualConc works ok with other European languages, such as Greek, Italian, etc.). If you use CasualConc with languages other than English, let me know how it works. If you prefer to read in Japanese, 日本語サイトもあります。
Current Version: 1.0.5 - last updated on 2010/11/13 Current Beta Version: 1.9.4 - last updated on 2012/5/27 For more up-to-date information, check CasualConc Blog. Note: This current version (1.0) is in maintenance mode. I only fix bugs if they are reported. A beta version of CasualConc is available on this page. This beta version does not look much different on the surface, but it went through some background changes. I also made some changes to some of the supporting tools and added a few useful (I hope) functions to the existing tools. If you ever try it, please let me know what you think. System requirement: Mac with Mac OS X 10.5.5 (Leopard) or 10.6 (Snow Leopard) NOT 10.7 (Lion), optimized for
1280x800 or larger screen, with plenty of memory. NOTE: If you use Lion, try beta and follow the instruction on the download page. File format: works best with plain text files (.txt) encoded in ASCII or UTF-8, but can handle other file types and other encodings (see Preferences - Files). Reading non-plain text files will take more time to process. PDF files should be text-embedded. You can create database files from these file types except for PDFs for faster search. Check How to Use for more information. Supported languages: any single-byte character language separated by single-byte space. Double-byte character language (East Asian languages) is also supported now, but you need to specify the language setting in Preferences to use with Japanese (or other East Asian Languages). Target User:
Mac users who don't want to start up Windows machine, switch to
BootCamp, or run Virtual PC/Parallels/VM Ware for simple concordancing
for preliminary analysis, preparing teaching materials, learning, etc.
(CasualConc is probably not good enough as your primary research tool) If you use CasualConc, please send me any feedback, bug report, or feature request. Any comment will motivate me to improve CasualConc. Please email me at casualconc (at) gmail.com. (replace (at) with @). By the way, CasualConc is freeware, but if you think it is useful, buy me coffee or good chocolate if we ever meet : ).
Currently, 7 other language-related applications are also on this site. They require Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and are also freeware, but please use them
at your own risk. These are: CasualPConc - a simple parallel concordancer CasualMultiPConc - a more basic parallel concordancer, but can handle parallel corpora up to 5. CasualTagger - a tagging helper (?) application to assist tagging your corpus (includes English POS tagging with EngTagger or rbtagger); batch processing available. CasualTextractor - a kind of file converter, extracting text information from Word/PDF/HTML etc files and save as plain text files. This also converts text encodings of plain text files. CasualTranscriber - a transcription helper to assist transcribing video/audio files CasualMecab - a Japanese POS/morphological analyzer using Mecab (MeCab and MeCab-Ruby need to be installed separately); batch processing available. IPATypist - a helper application to type IPA characters.
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