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Older Versions
All previous releases of AntConc can be found at the following link.
<.exe> files are for Windows.
<.zip> files are for Macintosh OS X.
<.tar.gz> files are for Linux.
Development Version
None at present
User Support
Latest Help files
Discussion groups
Video tutorials
- YouTube Tutorials (by Laurence Anthony)
- YouTube Tutorials (by Monika Bednarek)
- YouTube Tutorials (by Hyun Jung)
- YouTube Tutorials (by Umair Ibne Abid of Umair Linguistics)
- Youku Tutorials (by Laurence Anthony)
Downloadable guides
- Guide by Warren Tang (Hiroshima University, Japan)
- AntConc 3.2.1 Tutorial (in English) Latest version available here.
- Guide by Taku Kaneta and Akira Murakami (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan)
- AntConc3.2.2 Tutorial (in Japanese)
- Help file translations
- AntConc3.3.5 (in Arabic) by Ahmad Haider (University of Canterbury, New Zealand
- AntConc3.2.1 (in Chinese) by Xiong Qing'an (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China)
- AntConc3.1.0 (in German) by Regine Muller
- AntConc3.2.4 (in Korean) by Dr CK Jung (Centre for Corpus Research, Yonsei University, Korea)
- AntConc3.4.4 (in Portuguese) by Laboratory of New Technologies in International Relations - LANTRI (Julia S Borba Gonçalves)
- AntConc3.4.4 (in Spanish) by Jesús Aparicio Boussif (Universidad de Córdoba, España)
User Support
Latest Help file
Development Road Map
My current tentative plans.
| Status | Description |
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| Under development |
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| Plans for 2019 and beyond |
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Citing/Referencing AntConc
Use the following method to cite/reference AntConc according to the APA style guide:
- Anthony, L. (YEAR OF RELEASE). AntConc (Version VERSION NUMBER) [Computer Software]. Tokyo, Japan: Waseda University. Available from https://www.laurenceanthony.net/software
For example if you download AntConc 3.5.8, which was released in 2019, you would cite/reference it as follows:
- Anthony, L. (2019). AntConc (Version 3.5.8) [Computer Software]. Tokyo, Japan: Waseda University. Available from https://www.laurenceanthony.net/software
Word frequency lists
These lists can be imported into AntConc and used as reference corpora word lists to create keyword lists.
- British National Corpus (BNC) frequency lists.
- BE06 corpus and AME06 corpus frequency lists. Developed by Paul Baker. For more information on the design of the corpora behind these lists, see Paul Baker's homepage.
- Brown Corpus frequency lists.
Lemma lists
Lemma list. These can be imported into AntConc to create lemma word lists.
- AntBNC Lemma List (ver. 003)
- An English lemma list based on all words in the BNC corpus with a frequency greater than 2 (created by Laurence Anthony).
- To use this list, *append* a hyphen (-) and apostrophe (') character to the AntConc token definition to ensure the processed correctly (see global settings).
- Someya Lemma List (no hypens)
- An edited version of the Someya English lemma list with no hypenated words (original list created by Yasumasa Someya).
- Someya Lemma List
- The original Someya English lemma list (created by Yasumasa Someya).
- To use this list, *append* a hyphen (-) and apostrophe (') character to the AntConc token definition (see global settings).
- French Lemma List
- A French lemma list (created by Benoît Sagot).
- Spanish Lemma List
- A Spanish lemma list (developed by Laurence Anthony based on the list provided here).
Books/papers/websites related to AntConc
References to works citing AntConc can by found on Google Scholar here.
Interesting applications of AntConc
Here are a random collection of projects that use AntConc in interesting ways.
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