{"id":135,"date":"2018-07-09T16:33:48","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T16:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahjpurcell.sites.grinnell.edu\/sandbox_clone\/?page_id=135"},"modified":"2019-10-09T18:43:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T18:43:50","slug":"antconc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/his100.sarahjpurcell.sites.grinnell.edu\/spring-2021\/tutorials\/textual-analysis\/antconc\/","title":{"rendered":"Textual Analysis in AntConc"},"content":{"rendered":"

This tutorial was written by Katherine Walden<\/a>, Digital Liberal Arts Specialist at Grinnell College. The tutorial framework was created by Sarah Purcell (L.F. Parker Professor of History, Grinnell College) and Papa Ampim-Darko, a student research assistant at Grinnell College<\/p>\n

This tutorial was reviewed by Gina Donovan<\/a> (Instructional Technologist. Grinnell College).<\/p>\n

This tutorial is adapted from the Programming Historian\u2019s Corpus Analysis with AntConc tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Developed by Laurence Anthony, AntConc<\/a> is a free, closed-source program that runs on Windows, OS, and Linux. At the most basic level, AntConc is a concordancer, or a program that constructs a concordance based on terms in a text or collection of texts. AntConc also allows users to visualize concordance calculations and generate word and keyword lists based on terms present in the text. AntConc also supports cluster and collocation analysis and visualization.<\/p>\n

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With Voyant, we explored a graphical user interface option for conducting textual analysis. AntConc offers a somewhat more hands-on, customizable approach to analyzing a text.<\/p>\n

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Data<\/h5>\n

Navigate to http:\/\/sarahjpurcell.sites.grinnell.edu\/digital_methods\/files\/Files.zip<\/a> in a web browser and save the \u201cFiles\u201d compressed zip folder to your Desktop.<\/p>\n

Extract the folder’s contents.<\/p>\n

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Downloading AntConc<\/h5>\n

The computers we are working with in the Library have AntConc pre-installed.<\/p>\n

If you want to work with AntConc on your own computer, select the appropriate version<\/a> for your operating system and following the installation instructions.<\/p>\n

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1-Launch AntConc<\/strong> by double clicking on the Desktop icon or searching for the program in the Start menu.<\/p>\n

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Data<\/h5>\n

2-AntConc allows you to open single files<\/strong>, as well as open an entire file directory<\/strong>. For this tutorial, we will be working with a large number of S&B text files, so opening the directory makes more sense than loading these files individually.<\/p>\n

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3-Select File->Open Dir<\/strong> and navigate to the extracted S&B files.\u00a0 Click OK<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

4-The loaded files will be listed on the left-hand window in AntConc, and the total number of files will display at the bottom of that window.<\/p>\n

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AntConc\u2019s Functionality<\/h5>\n

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5-The main AntConc screen gives you access to seven different textual analysis tools.<\/p>\n