WordSmith Tools

WordSmith Tools

Overview

What's new in version 5

Utilities

Choose Languages

Corpus Corruption Detector

Version Checker

Viewer and Aligner

Getting Started

getting started with Concord

getting started with KeyWords

getting started with WordList

Installation and Updating

installing WordSmith Tools

what your licence allows

network defaults

version checking

Controller

accents and other characters

adjust settings

advanced settings

batch processing

choose favourite texts

choose language

choosing files from standard dialogue box

class or session instructions

compute new column of data

copy your results

count data frequencies

custom processing

custom settings

editing a list of data

editing column headings

find relevant files

general settings

layout & format

marking entries

match words in list

print and print preview

reduce data to n entries

search & replace

search by typing

search for word or part of word

suspend processing

text and languages

window management

zap unwanted lines

Tags and Markup

choices in handling tags

tags as selectors

only if containing...

part of file:selecting within texts

making a tag file

start and end of text segments

multimedia tags

modify source texts

Concord

what is a concordance?

search-word or phrase

search word syntax

file-based search-words

search-word and other settings

Collocation

what is collocation?

collocate horizons

collocation relationship

collocates display

collocates and lemmas

collocate highlighting in concordance

collocate settings

re-sorting: collocates

dispersion plot

concordancing on tags

editing concordances

remove duplicates

re-sorting: dispersion plot

saving and printing

summary statistics

text segments in Concord

viewing options

WordSmith controller: Concord: settings

KeyWords

ordinary two word-list analysis

associate definition

creating a database

example of key words

key key-word definition

key-ness definition

KeyWords database

keywords database related clusters

KeyWords: advice

KeyWords: calculation

KeyWords clusters

KeyWords: links

make a word list from keywords data

plot calculation

regrouping clumps

re-sorting: KeyWords

the key words screen

WordSmith controller: KeyWords settings

WordList

comparing wordlists

merging wordlists

comparison display

consistency analysis (detailed)

detailed consistency relations

consistency analysis (simple)

compute key words

Lemmas (joining words)

what are lemmas and how do we join words?

auto-joining lemmas

choosing lemma file

WordList Index

what is an Index for?

making a WordList Index

index lists: viewing

index exporting

relationships between words

mutual information and other relations

relationships display

relationships computing

recompute tokens

re-sorting: consistency lists

statistics

summary statistics

stop-lists and match-lists

import words from text list

type/token ratios

case sensitivity

minimum & maximum settings

WordList and tags

WordList display

WordSmith controller: WordList settings

WordSmith controller: Index settings

Utility Programs

Convert Data from Previous Versions

Convert Data from Previous Versions

WebGetter

Corpus Corruption Detector

Languages Chooser

Other Languages

saving your choices

Minimal Pairs

choosing your files

rules and settings

running the program

File Viewer

Using File Viewer

File Utilities

Splitter

Splitter: index

aim of Splitter

Splitter: filenames

Splitter: wildcards

join text files

compare two files

find duplicates

Text Converter

Text Converter: index

Text Converter: extracting from files

Text Converter: settings

Text Converter: syntax

Convert within the text file

Convert format of entire text files

Text Converter filtering: move if

Text Converter: copy to

Text Converter: sample conversion file

Text Converter conversion file

Viewer and Aligner

aligning with Viewer & Aligner

example of aligning

aligning and moving

numbering sentences & paragraphs

reading in a plain text

sentence joining and splitting

technical aspects

translation mis-matches

troubleshooting

unusual sentences

WSConcGram

aims of WSConcGram

definition of a concgram

WSConcGram Settings

generating concgrams

viewing concgrams

filtering concgrams

exporting concgrams

Character Profiler

profiling settings

Reference

acknowledgements

change language

Character Sets

accents & symbols

contact addresses

Definitions

word separators

demonstration version

edit v. type-in mode

file extensions

finding source texts

folders\directories

HTML, SGML and XML

international versions

tool-specific limitations

links between tools

keyboard shortcuts

long file names

machine requirements

manual for WordSmith Tools

menu and button options

never used WordSmith before

plot dispersion value

RAM availability

reference corpus

restore last file

selecting multiple entries

single words v. clusters

tools for pattern-spotting

version information

Troubleshooting

apostrophes not found

Concord tags problem

Concord/WordList mismatch

illegible colours

keys don't respond

pineapple-slicing

printer didn't print

word list out of order

Error Messages

list of error messages

.ini file not found

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"

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 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

original text file needed but not found

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 2000 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

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