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Why upgrade from WordSmith 3.0?

New & improved Features

  • online set-by-step screenshots showing how to make wordlists, concordances etc.
  • full online version of help file
  • virtually unlimited concordances and word lists
  • localisation
  • improved word list cluster handling
  • variable size Concord clusters
  • Concord shows where in the sentence, paragraph, heading, and section each occurrence comes
  • Unicode handling of text allowing many more languages
  • make a concordance and play the corresponding sound file
  • enhanced tag handling
  • build up your own text corpus from the Internet
  • enhanced statistical functions for collocation
  • advanced lemmatisation through use of own .dll files
  • API
  • use of .zip files
  • more Utility tools
  • version checking
  • no more short file-names

These are all documented in the Help.