CasualConc is a concordance program that runs natively on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. It is designed for casual use (preliminary analysis or non-research purposes). 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 1.86GHz). 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.

NEW!! A new program is added to the site!!  CasualPConc is a simple parallel concordancer.  Please try it if you are interested.  It is available on this page.

What's new CasualConc bug fix and 1.1 beta I found a bug in sorting by keyword (search word) in Concord.  But fix- sorting by keyword (search word) did not ignore case (now it does)I don't know ... Posted ‎‎Nov 15, 2009 6:04 PM‎‎ by Yasu Imao CasualConc update and CasualTranscriber Well, I didn't plan to add any new feature to CasualConc 1.0, but I changed my mind...  This is partly because a couple of new features I added ... Posted ‎‎Nov 7, 2009 8:37 AM‎‎ by Yasu Imao Another CasualConc bug fix In the development of the next version, I found a bug which affects the version 1.0 and fixed it.Bug- the context text (in context view) is not properly ... Posted ‎‎Oct 31, 2009 6:43 PM‎‎ by Yasu Imao CasualConc minor bug fix I found a bug in CasualConc.  It's a minor one (a feature I believe not a lot of people use). Bug fix- crashed when creating a database file in ... Posted ‎‎Oct 24, 2009 10:15 AM‎‎ by Yasu Imao ‎CasualConc 1.0 and more...‎ I didn't get any feedback/bug reports (sadly...), so I've decided to make the latest build 1.0.  Now officially it's out of beta, just because I ... Posted ‎‎Oct 18, 2009 5:55 PM‎‎ by Yasu Imao Showing posts 1 - 5 of 16. View more »

 
Current Version: 1.0.2 - last updated on 11/16/2009

For more up-to-date information, check CasualConc Blog.

System requirement: Intel or PPC Mac with Mac OS X 10.5.5 (Leopard) or later, optimized for 1280x800 or larger screen, with plenty of memory

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)

This program is still under development. Basic functions are ready, but I haven't finalized the features and haven't really tested it.  But if you are brave enough to test it, go to the download page and try it.  I'd really appreciate your feedback.  It 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 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.