collocate follow

The point of it

 

The idea (from Paul Raper) is to be able to follow up a collocate by requesting a new concordance based on it, in the same text files as selected for the collocate. This aids exploration of related words.

 

How to do it

 

Here is an example, where there is a collocate list relating to BEERS. Select a word of interest, such as KEG,

 

collocates_of_BEER

and select Follow collocate in the Compute menu.

follow_collocate_menu_item

WordSmith starts up a new Concord window with a search on KEG.

 

KEG

The search is carried out on the most recently selected text files (selected using the file-choose window or by reading in a saved concordance).

 

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