Concordancing Tools

Text-Based Concordance

1. The text is entered in the large field in the middle of the page.2. Various operations such as count word or language conversion from

English to French or Spanish can be performed on it, using icons on the right.

Concord writer

1. Helps ESL learners with their writing choices1. Provides such information as the word family or other words appearing before or

after it in many examples

WordSmith

1. Computes the keywords, converts text files from one format to another or make changes in them

2. Pros: Best Windows-based concordancing tool; the corpora can be compared by a “keyword” function

3. Cons: No real awareness of SGML/XML