MonoConc Pro is its excellent user interface, making the software simple and easy to work with. There are many current users of the program and it is referenced in various corpus-related books and papers. Many universities have installed the multi-user version in computer labs. The program allows new users to load and search a corpus in a few seconds, while also providing sophisticated and powerful text analysis features, such as regular expression searches, tag searches and a corpus comparison function. This component uses statistics to identify the words which are the most distinctive in one corpus compared with a reference corpus. The package includes a 150-page "manual", Concordancing and Corpus Analysis Using MP 2.2. This is a pdf file. Chapters include: Working with a corpus; Word lists and frequency lists; Searching for words and phrases; The power of regular expressions; The search for syntax; The power of sorting; Collocates and collocations; Working with languages other than English; Corpora and language learning; Corpora and lexicography; Linguistic investigations; Tips and tricks.
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