Global Settings

Search Words

• Word(s): simple word search with wildcard options
• Character: character (letter) search.  All the characters in the search text are treated as is.
  
• Regular Expression: full regular expression search.  Because CasualConc is written in Ruby, the regular expression rule follows that of Ruby.

Search Word History

    You can set the number of Search Word History that CasualConc remembers.

Table Font Size

    You can change the font size of the text on tables (outputs) except for Concord.  You can set the font size (and keyword colors) of Concord table in Concord Preferences.

Number Handling

    (this setting is applied to Collocation words and Word/n-gram Count)

    This setting specifies how numbers and words that start with numbers (i.e. 1a).  You have three choices.

• Ignore: completely ignore numbers from the count
• Count as #: replace all the numbers as # and count it
• As is: numbers are counted as is (i.e. 1 and 2 are counted separately)
  

Scope of Context

• Paragraph: the unit of the analysis will be a paragraph which is separated by a line break character (\r, \n, \r\n, \f)
• Sentence: the unit of the analysis will be strings separated by whatever the character you specify.  But if your corpus is large, this will slow down your analysis considerably.  So if possible, process your corpus before analysis so a line break character comes after each sentence (to deal with a sentence as a paragraph)
• File: the unit of the analysis will be a file.  This mode provides most accurate context view in concordance (records the indexes of the search word(s)).  But if your corpus includes large files, this slows down the processing speed considerably.  This mode is not supported in Database mode.
  

Create Concordance Plot

    If you select File as Scope of Context and check this, Concordance Plot will be created when you search a word/phrase in Concord.

Include as (a part of) words

Check if you want to treat single quote (') and/or hyphen (-) as a part of words.  Without including ', learner's and learner are treated as the same word learner because the ' is handled as non-word character.

You can also specify abbreviations so that they are dealt with as a single word (e.g., et al., etc.).  These settings apply to context words in Concordance, Cluster, and Collocation as well as Word/n-gram Count.

Include non-alphabetic characters between search words is to search word clusters that go across comma, period, etc.

Corpus Handling

Simple: You can select files or single database file to analyze

Advanced: You can create, manage, and search multiple corpora (groups of files) or database files.