WordSmith Tools Manual

software for finding word patterns

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Contents | Index

• WordSmith Tools
• Overview
  • What's new in this version
  • Controller
  • Concord
  • KeyWords
  • WordList
  • Utilities
    • Aligner
    • Character Profiler
    • CharGrams
    • Choose Languages
    • Corpus Corruption Detector
    • File Utilities
      • Splitter
    • File Viewer
    • Minimal Pairs
    • Text Converter
    • Version Checker
    • Webgetter
    • WSConcGram
• Getting Started
  • getting started with Concord
  • getting started with KeyWords
  • getting started with WordList
• Installation and Updating
  • installing WordSmith Tools
  • what your licence allows
  • site licence defaults
  • version checking
• Controller
  • category or Set
    • add a Set column
    • colour categories
    • set column categories
    • colour categories
  • add notes
  • batch processing
  • choosing texts
    • text formats
    • the file-choose window
    • favourite texts
  • class or session instructions
  • columns of data
    • layout & format
    • compute new column of data
    • column totals
  • copy your results
  • editing
    • reduce data to n entries
    • reverse-delete
    • delete or restore to end
    • delete if
    • editing column headings
    • editing a list of data
  • find relevant files
  • language
    • Overview
    • Language Chooser
    • Other Languages
    • Font
    • Sort Order
    • saving your choices
  • match words in list
  • plot contexts
  • previous lists
  • print and print preview
  • quit WordSmith
  • saving
    • save results
    • save as text, Excel etc.
  • searching
    • search for word or part of word
    • search by typing
    • search & replace
  • selecting or marking entries
    • selecting multiple entries
    • marking entries
  • settings
    • restoring settings
    • save defaults
    • adjust settings
    • main settings
    • colours
    • folder settings
    • fonts
    • advanced settings
      • scripting
      • custom processing
  • source text(s)
  • summary statistics
    • count data frequencies
  • stop lists
  • suspend processing
  • text and languages
    • characters and letters
      • accents and other characters
      • wildcards
  • text dates and time-lines
  • window management
    • filenames tab
  • word clouds
  • zap unwanted lines
• Tags and Markup
  • choices in handling tags
  • custom settings
  • tags as selectors
  • only if containing...
  • part of file:selecting within texts
  • making a tag file
  • tag-types
  • start and end of text segments
  • multimedia tags
  • modify source texts
  • XML text
• Concord
  • index
  • what is a concordance?
  • search-word or phrase
    • search word syntax
    • file-based search-words
    • search-word and other settings
  • advice
  • blanking
  • clusters
  • Collocation
    • what is collocation?
    • collocate horizons
    • collocation relationship
    • collocates display
    • collocates and lemmas
    • collocate follow
    • collocate highlighting in concordance
    • follow-up concordances
    • collocate settings
    • re-sorting: collocates
  • dispersion plot
  • concordancing on tags
    • nearest tag
  • context word
  • editing concordances
    • remove duplicates
  • patterns
  • re-sorting
    • re-sorting: dispersion plot
  • recompute file lists
  • show file data
  • saving and printing
  • sounds & video
    • obtaining sound and video files
  • text segments in Concord
  • viewing options
  • WordSmith controller: Concord: settings
• KeyWords
  • index
  • ordinary two word-list analysis
  • choosing files
  • concordance
  • example of key words
  • keyness
    • p value
    • key-ness definition
    • thinking about keyness
  • KeyWords database
    • creating a database
    • key key-word definition
    • associates
      • associate definition
    • keywords database related clusters
    • clumps
      • regrouping clumps
    • export data
  • KeyWords: advice
  • KeyWords: calculation
  • KeyWords clusters
  • KeyWords: links
  • make a word list from keywords data
  • plot display
    • plot calculation
  • re-sorting: KeyWords
  • the key words screen
  • WordSmith controller: KeyWords settings
• WordList
  • index
  • compare word lists
    • compute key words
    • comparing wordlists
    • comparison display
  • merging wordlists
  • consistency
    • consistency analysis (range)
    • detailed consistency analysis
      • re-sorting: consistency lists
    • detailed consistency relations
  • find filenames
  • Lemmas (joining words)
    • what are lemmas and how do we join words?
    • manual joining
    • auto-joining lemmas
    • choosing lemma file
  • WordList Index
    • what is an Index for?
    • making a WordList Index
    • index clusters
    • join clusters
    • index lists: viewing
    • index exporting
  • menu search
  • relationships between words
    • mutual information and other relations
    • relationships display
    • relationships computing
  • recompute tokens
  • statistics
    • type/token ratios
    • dispersion
    • summary statistics
  • stop-lists and match-lists
  • import words from text list
  • settings
    • WordSmith controller: Index settings
    • WordSmith controller: WordList settings
    • minimum & maximum settings
    • case sensitivity
  • sorting
  • WordList and tags
  • WordList display
• Utility Programs
  • Aligner
    • index
    • aligning
    • example of aligning
    • aligning and moving
    • editing
    • finding specific words
    • languages
    • numbering sentences & paragraphs
    • options
    • reading in a plain text
    • joining and splitting
    • settings
    • technical aspects
    • translation mis-matches
    • troubleshooting
    • unusual lines
  • Character Profiler
    • purpose
    • profiling characters
    • profiling settings
  • Chargrams
    • purpose
    • chargram procedure
    • display
    • settings
  • Convert Data from Previous Versions
  • Corpus Corruption Detector
    • Aim
    • How it works
  • Minimal Pairs
    • aim
    • requirements
    • choosing your files
    • output
    • rules and settings
    • running the program
  • File Viewer
    • Using File Viewer
  • File Utilities
    • index
    • compare two files
    • find duplicates
    • dates and times
    • move files to sub-folders
    • file deleter
    • rename
    • Splitter
      • Splitter: index
      • aim of Splitter
      • Splitter: filenames
      • Splitter: wildcards
    • join text files
    • file chunker
    • find holes in texts
  • Text Converter
    • index
    • settings
      • Text Converter: copy to
    • extracting from files
    • filtering: move if
    • Convert within the text file
      • conversion file
      • syntax
      • sample conversion file
    • Convert format of entire text files
      • Mark-up changes
      • Word, Excel, PDF
      • non-Unicode Text
      • Other changes
    • Text Converter: converting BNC XML version
  • WebGetter
    • overview
    • settings
    • display
    • limitations
  • WSConcGram
    • aims
    • definition of a concgram
    • settings
    • generating concgrams
    • viewing concgrams
    • filtering concgrams
    • exporting concgrams
• Reference
  • acknowledgements
  • API
  • bibliography
  • bugs
  • change language
  • Character Sets
    • overview
    • accents & symbols
  • clipboard
  • contact addresses
  • date format
  • Definitions
    • definitions
    • word separators
  • demonstration version
  • drag and drop
  • edit v. type-in mode
  • file extensions
  • finding source texts
  • flavours of Unicode
  • folders\directories
  • formulae
  • history list
  • HTML, SGML and XML
  • hyphens
  • international versions
  • limitations
    • tool-specific limitations
  • links between tools
  • keyboard shortcuts
  • machine requirements
  • manual for WordSmith Tools
  • menu and button options
  • MS Word documents
  • never used WordSmith before
  • numbers
  • plot dispersion value
  • RAM availability
  • reference corpus
  • restore last file
  • single words v. clusters
  • speed
  • status bar
  • tools for pattern-spotting
  • version information
    • Version 3 improvements
  • zip files
• Troubleshooting
  • list of FAQs
  • apostrophes not found
  • column spacing
  • Concord tags problem
  • Concord/WordList mismatch
  • crashed
  • demo limit
  • funny symbols
  • illegible colours
  • keys don't respond
  • pineapple-slicing
  • printer didn't print
  • too slow
  • won't start
  • word list out of order
• Error Messages
  • list of error messages
  • .ini file not found
  • administrator rights
  • base list error
  • can only save words as ASCII
  • can't call other tool
  • can't make folder as that's an existing filename
  • can't compute key words as languages differ
  • can't merge list with itself!
  • can't read file
  • character set reset to <x> to suit <language>
  • concordance file is faulty
  • concordance stop list file not found
  • confirmation messages: okay to re-read
  • conversion file not found
  • destination folder not found
  • disk problem -- file not saved
  • dispersions go with concordances
  • drive not valid
  • failed to access Internet
  • failed to create new folder name
  • failed to read file
  • failed to save file
  • file access denied
  • file contains none of the tags specified
  • file has "holes"
  • file not found
  • filenames must differ!
  • folder is read-only
  • for use on X machine only
  • form incomplete
  • full drive & folder name needed
  • function not working properly yet
  • invalid concordance file
  • invalid file name
  • invalid KeyWords database file
  • invalid KeyWords calculation
  • invalid WordList comparison file
  • invalid WordList file
  • joining limit reached
  • KeyWords database file is faulty
  • KeyWords file is faulty
  • limit of file-based search-words reached
  • links between Tools disrupted
  • match list details not specified
  • must be a number
  • mutual information incompatible
  • network registration used elsewhere
  • no access to text file - in use elsewhere?
  • no associates found
  • no clumps identified
  • no clusters found
  • no collocates found
  • no concordance entries
  • no concordance stop list words
  • no deleted lines to zap
  • no entries in KeyWords database
  • no fonts available
  • no key words found
  • no key words to plot
  • no KeyWords stop list words
  • no lemma list words
  • no match list words
  • no room for computed variable
  • no statistics available
  • no stop list words
  • no such file(s) found
  • no tag list words
  • no word lists selected
  • not a valid number
  • not a WordSmith file
  • not a current WordSmith file
  • nothing activated
  • Only X% of words found in reference corpus
  • original text file needed but not found
  • printer needed
  • registration code in wrong format
  • registration is not correct
  • short of memory
  • source folder file(s) not found
  • stop list file not found
  • stop list file not read
  • tag file not found
  • tag file not read
  • this function is not yet ready
  • this is a demo version
  • this program needs Windows XP or greater
  • to stop getting this message ...
  • too many requests to ignore matching clumps
  • too many sentences
  • truncating at xx words -- tag list file has more
  • two files needed
  • unable to merge Keywords Databases
  • why did my search fail?
  • word list file is faulty
  • word list file not found
  • WordList comparison file is faulty
  • WordSmith Tools already running
  • WordSmith Tools expired
  • WordSmith version mis-match
  • XX days left

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