Antconc - Collocation
Channel: CorpusLingAnalysis
Date: 2011-06-16

A screencast explaining how to do a collocation analysis using AntConc.

Notes

Software used: AntConc3.2.1 -- website: http://www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/antconc_index.html 

In this video I press 'Start' after choosing different sort options. However, if you have a big corpus, it will take a long time to regenerate the results, so another method is to just click 'Sort', because then the software can just re-sort the already generated results.

A clarification: when you click on a word in the collocation results, Ant Conc jumps to the Concordance tool and comes up with concordance lines for the chosen collocate word. However, the results include all instances of the collocate word, regardless of whether or not it actually occurs as a collocate of the node word. The software simply searches for the collocate word like any new search.

Acknowledgments

My thanks go to Bethany Stanford who collected the corpus used in this video (15 speeches given by Barack Obama over the course of his election campaign which ran from 2007 to his subsequent election and inauguration in 2009). My thanks also go to Laurence Anthony for useful feedback on this video which I have incorporated above.