Citing/Referencing AntConc
Use the following method to cite/reference AntConc according to the APA style guide:
- Anthony, L. (YEAR OF RELEASE). AntConc (Version VERSION NUMBER) [Computer Software]. Tokyo, Japan: Waseda University. Available from https://www.laurenceanthony.net/software
For example if you download AntConc 4.2.4, which was released in 2023, you would cite/reference it as follows:
- Anthony, L. (2023). AntConc (Version 4.2.4) [Computer Software]. Tokyo, Japan: Waseda University.
Available from https://www.laurenceanthony.net/software
Word frequency lists
These 'wordlist' corpora can be loaded into AntConc (4.0 and later) via the Corpus Manager and used as
reference corpora to create keyword lists.
- BE06 corpus and AME06 corpus frequency lists.
- The complete BE06 and AmE06 corpora are included in the software. Developed by Paul
Baker. For more information on the design of the corpora behind these lists, see Paul Baker's homepage.
These lists can be imported into AntConc (3.5.9 and earlier) and used as reference corpora word lists to
create keyword lists.
- British National Corpus (BNC) frequency lists.
- BE06 corpus and AME06 corpus frequency lists.
- Brown Corpus frequency lists.
Lemma lists
Lemma lists. These lists can be imported into AntConc (3.5.9 and earlier) to create lemma word lists.
From AntConc 4.0, it is recommended that you Part-Of-Speech (POS) tag and lemmatize your files, e.g.
using TagAnt, before loading them into AntConc. Then, the lemma forms can be displayed through menu
options.
- AntBNC Lemma List (ver. 004)
- An automatically generated English lemma list based on all words in the BNC corpus with
a frequency greater than 2 (created by Laurence Anthony). To use this list, *append* a
hyphen (-) character to the AntConc token definition to ensure the processed correctly
(see global settings). This list is extensively revised from the previous version, with
all words with overlapping headwords combined into a single entry and all words
including an apostrophe removed. As this process conflates words of different word
classes into the same entry, the list serves more as a flemma list. The automatic
generation process naturally introduces some erroneous entries, so the list should be
checked before use, depending on the purpose.
- Someya Lemma List (no hypens)
- An edited version of the Someya English lemma list with no hypenated words (original
list created by Yasumasa Someya).
- Someya Lemma List
- The original Someya English lemma list (created by Yasumasa Someya).
- To use this list, *append* a hyphen (-) and apostrophe (') character to the AntConc
token definition (see global settings).
- French Lemma List
- A French lemma list (created by Benoît Sagot).
- Spanish Lemma List
- A Spanish lemma list (developed by Laurence Anthony based on the list provided here).
Books/papers/websites related to AntConc
References to works citing AntConc can by found on Google Scholar here.
Interesting applications of AntConc
Here are a random collection of projects that use AntConc in interesting ways.