MonoConc Pro is a fast concordance (text searching) program with an excellent user-interface. It is used in the analysis of English or other texts -- Spanish, French, Japanese, Chinese, etc. -- for linguistic or language teaching and language learning purposes (ESL). As well as providing KWIC concordance results, the software also produces wordlists and collocation information. The program is easy to use, but also comes with a range a powerful features such as Context Search, Regular Expression search, Part-of-Speech Tag Search, Collocations, and Corpus Comparison.

The software is used as part of many corpus linguistics courses and is also widely used in ESL/EFL for vocabulary learning and language learning in general. MonoConc Pro is networkable and operates well under a variety of Windows environments (W95 and above).

What next?

Ready to order? Order from the athel.com site. If you need something on paper, you can download a flyer with an order form (pdf file) (order form in html format). Send email to orders@athel.com. (In some cases it is possible to email the program to users who need the software immediately. Send a request to barlow@athel.com)

Need more information?

• Why not "google" MonoConc to get a sense of computer labs around the world with the software installed
• Check a quick overview of concordances in language learning.
• Look at the reviews (for version 2.0): Review of MonoConcPro 2.0 on Linguist List and Randi Reppen's review in LL&T
  
• FAQ. Not yet in place. (A concordance program retrieves all the instances of a particular word or phrase and displays the "hits" together in one window. This simple technique leads to analyses of language of interest to a range of users: from language learners to linguists to lexicographers to lawyers.)
• Guided tour for older version of MonoConc Pro (or pdf file)
• Flyer/order form (html) (pdf)
• download the demo version. The demo, which can be freely distributed, is fully functional, except that the number of hits is limited to 20.
• list of features

• Unsure. If you find that the software is not suitable, you can return it within 30 days for a refund. If you have a particular task in mind and want to know whether the software will be useful, send an email to info@athel.com.

A multilingual concordance program for parallel texts (translations). Up to four languages can be analysed in parallel, but before the analyse can proceed the texts must be aligned so that text segment (=? sentence) 250 of one text is aligned with segment 250 in the second text. Alignment may be indicated by paragraph marks or tags. This bilingual concordancer is similar in function to MonoConc Pro and includes collocation tables, word frequency lists, collocation lists, regular expression search, as well as a parallel search option and translation and "hot words" utilities.

For more info (perhaps more than you want to know), look at a paper (somewhat old) on ParaConc in html format or as a pdf file. You can also check out the parallel corpora site.

Single user: $95.00. Site Licence (2-year): $750.00 for up to 15 users. Current version is 0.9x; version 1.0 will then be sent free of charge when it is released. Order here.