For example, searching test* will retrieve a concordance containing all words which start with test (e.g. The * symbol may be used to represent any string of characters of any length. In order to make a search case-sensitive, click ‘Options->Case sensitive’. The search function is by default not case-sensitive so a search for democracywill retrieve both democracy and Democracy. Single keywords may be typed into the search bar to retrieve a concordance of all lines in the corpus containing the keyword. In order to view more specific information on using the Greek and Arabic corpora, please click on the links below: Because Latin shares the same script, the description will also be relevant to the use of the Latin corpus. Note: The following description of search options is based on using the Genealogies English corpus. This can be imported into a spreadsheet and manipulated using software such as Microsoft Excel. Individual concordances can be saved to your computer as a CSV file via the ‘File’ menu (‘File->Save concordances…’). In the screenshot below, for example, the software tells us that there are 6110 instances of the keyword democracy in the corpus selected. The total number of ‘hits’ for a search query is displayed at the foot of the corpus browser window. This is often useful when working with unusually long or short keywords. The width of each column can then be adjusted manually by clicking and dragging the divider bars separating each column header. All of these features are explained below.Ī keyword search will populate the concordance browser window, displaying the Filename, Left Context, Keyword and Right Context for each line of text in the corpus that matches this search string. ‘Plugins’, on the other hand, are additional tools (mostly tools of analysis) which facilitate working with the corpus and provide further information on the texts, such as frequency lists and details about the content of each corpus. The ‘Options’ menu allows you to make a number of choices relating to how you access the corpora. For example, in order to access the Translational English Corpus (TEC), go to ‘File’->’New remote corpus…’ and enter :1240 as the IP address of the new corpus server. It is also possible to access other remote corpora via the Genealogies interface.
For more information about the content and design of each of the corpora, please click here. ‘English’ is the default corpus unless you choose another corpus from the drop-down menu. Once you have downloaded and launched the software, a screen similar to the one shown below will be presented:Ĭlick on ‘File’ to choose the language corpus you wish to work with. Should you encounter any software bugs or other technical problems when using these tools, please create a ticket detailing the nature of the issue on our SourceForge project page:
Information about the content of our corpora can be accessed here.įor suggestions as to the kinds of research that might be conducted using these new tools, please see the Research Avenues section of the website. This page aims to provide a user-friendly guide to the corpus analysis software that is currently being developed for the Genealogies of Knowledge project.
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