WordSmith Tools Manual
software for finding word patterns
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Index
WordSmith Tools
Overview
Requirements
What's new in version 6
Controller
Concord
KeyWords
WordList
Utilities
Character Profiler
CharGrams
Choose Languages
Corpus Corruption Detector
File Utilities
Splitter
File Viewer
Minimal Pairs
Text Converter
Version Checker
Viewer and Aligner
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
characters and letters
accents and other characters
wildcards
add notes
adjust settings
advanced settings
batch processing
choosing texts
text formats
the file-choose window
favourite texts
choosing files from standard dialogue box
class or session instructions
colour categories
colours
column totals
compute new column of data
copy your results
count data frequencies
custom processing
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
folder settings
fonts
main settings
language
Overview
Language Chooser
Other Languages
Font
Sort Order
saving your choices
layout & format
match words in list
previous lists
print and print preview
quit WordSmith
saving
save results
save as text
scripting
searching
search for word or part of word
search by typing
search & replace
selecting or marking entries
selecting multiple entries
marking entries
filenames tab
settings
save defaults
restoring settings
source text(s)
stop lists
suspend processing
text and languages
text dates and time-lines
window management
word clouds
zap unwanted lines
Tags and Markup
overview
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
purpose
index
what is a concordance?
search-word or phrase
search word syntax
file-based search-words
search-word and other settings
advice
blanking
Category or Set
set column categories
colour categories
clusters
Collocation
what is collocation?
collocate horizons
collocation relationship
collocates display
collocates and lemmas
collocate follow
collocate highlighting in concordance
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
saving and printing
sounds & video
obtaining sound and video files
summary statistics
text segments in Concord
viewing options
WordSmith controller: Concord: settings
KeyWords
purpose
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
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
purpose
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
statistics
type/token ratios
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
Convert Data from Previous Versions
Convert Data from Previous Versions
WebGetter
overview
settings
display
limitations
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
Splitter
Splitter: index
aim of Splitter
Splitter: filenames
Splitter: wildcards
join text files
compare two files
file chunker
find duplicates
rename
move files to sub-folders
dates and times
find holes in texts
Text Converter
purpose
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
Viewer and Aligner
purpose
index
aligning with Viewer & Aligner
example of aligning
aligning and moving
editing
languages
numbering sentences & paragraphs
options
reading in a plain text
joining and splitting
settings
technical aspects
translation mis-matches
troubleshooting
unusual lines
WSConcGram
aims
definition of a concgram
settings
generating concgrams
viewing concgrams
filtering concgrams
exporting concgrams
Character Profiler
purpose
profiling characters
profiling settings
Chargrams
purpose
chargram procedure
display
settings
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