ParaConc

ParaConc is a bilingual or multilingual concordancer that can be used in contrastive analyses, language learning, and translation studies/training. Although still officially in beta, ParaConc is quite well-known and is being used at a variety of institutions around the world. See users/projects below.

Pricing. The (educational) price of the software will be $95 (see the ParaConc flyer). A two-year 15-user site licence is $750. See www.text-search.com for commercial pricing. To order, visit www.athel.com or send email to orders@athel.com.

Current users can send email to Athelstan to receive the latest build (269). A pdf version of the manual is available.

Users can join the ParaConc mailing list.

A demo is now available. (In the demo the number of hits is restricted to 150 and the results cannot be saved or printed.)

ParaConc Descriptions

Short paper (pdf)

Brief Overview of Features

Alignment: Utiltity for semi-automatic alignment. The alignment was recently changed (Build 269), but the info in the flyer gives a general overview.
Searching: Simple text search; Regular expression search; Tag search; and Parallel Search
Translations: Search for potential translations in results window. Also Hot Words feature suggests possible translations and collocates.
Font Support: ParaConc can now be used more easily with Chinese, Japanese and Korean
Collocate Frequency Span: Collocates of spans from 1L-1R to 4L-4R
Collocate highlighting: Collocates of the search term are highlighted in colour in the concordance lines. This allows the combination of (visual) collocate frequency information with the usual presentation of concordance patterns.
Advanced Sort : Primary and Secondary Sorting of results. Advanced Sort option allows primary, secondary and tertiary sorting. Also sorting on ends of words, sorting according to the value of tracked tags.
Advanced Collocation: Program counts collocations in various ways. A useful Span feature has been introduced. Once a search has been completed, the user chooses a span (2 to 5 words) and the software calculates the most frequent collocations of the specified size containing the search word.
Save As: Various saving options, including Save As Html file, which gives a coloured picture of the search results for display on the web.

People/Projects

There is a growing ParaConc community and an obvious need to share expertise. To subscribe to the paraconc users list, send email to paraconc@athel.com. Below is a general description of people and projects associated in some way with ParaConc.

Languages Person Institution Articles/Websites/etc.
Various/Chinese-English? Pernilla Danielsson
Centre for Corpus Research University of Birmingham Using Parallel Corpora in the Bilingual Classroom Danielsson and Mahlberg
Various Serge Sharoff Centre for Translation Studies
University of Leeds Translation training
Various SSIMIT Aston's Corpus use and learning to translate
Various Dorothy Kenny and Gaby Saldanha Dublin City University Temporary trial -- translation course
Various Lynne Bowker University of Ottowa Temporary trial -- translation course
Various University of Oslo
Learner corpora Sylviane Granger UCL
Arabic-English Sattar Izwaini UMIST Building specialised corpora for translation studies
Chinese-English Marjorie Chan Ohio State University
Chinese-English Wallace Chen
Chinese/Wa Richard Kunst
Justin Watkins SOAS Wa Dictionary Project
Czech-English Dominik Lukes Parallel corpus available
Czech-English Frantisek Cermak and
Alexandr Rosen Charles University Czech National Corpus
Danish-English?? Henrik Gottlieb Center for Translation Studies and Lexicography, University of Copenhagen
French-English Raf Salkie University of Brighton Using parallel corpora in translation
French-English Geoffrey Williams
French-English? Hélène.Chuquet Poitiers
French-English? Noëlle Serpollet Lancaster University
German-English?? Brigitta.Mittmann University of Augsburg
German-English?? Ilse Friede Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet
German-English Juliane House and
Nicole Baumgarten University of Hamburg
Hungarian-English Monika Szirmai
Italian-English Mare Hédiard ??
Italian-English?? Margherita Ulrych Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori, Trieste
Italian-English Federico Zanettin ?? Bilingual Comparable Corpora and the Training of Translators
Japanese-English CHUJO, Kiyomi Nihon University Japanese-English Newspaper
Japanese-English HIDAI, Shigeyuki
Japanese-English OHARA, Kyoko Hirose Keio University
Japanese-English YAMAMOTO, Ryoichi Teikyo University of Science & Technology
Japanese-English KONDO, Fumiko University of Birmingham (PhD Student) Aligning Japanese-English text; corpus linguistics
Korean-English?? LEE, Chungmin Seoul National University
Slavic C.E. Keijsper and A. Barentsen, Amsterdam?
Slovene S. Vinta article
Spanish-English Juan Zarandon Fernández
Spanish-English?? Margarita Pinos Pérez
Swedish? Karin Aijmer, P-O Nilsson,
A-L Fredriksson Göteborg University
Swedish? Ulf Magnusson Luleå University of Technology
Turkish-English Chris Meeder
Xhosa, etc. Kim Wallmach UNISA
?? Paul Johnston UMIST
?? Szilvia Papp University of Portsmouth

Languages	Person	Institution	Articles/Websites/etc.
Various/Chinese-English?	Pernilla Danielsson Centre for Corpus Research	University of Birmingham	Using Parallel Corpora in the Bilingual Classroom Danielsson and Mahlberg
Various	Serge Sharoff	Centre for Translation Studies University of Leeds	Translation training
Various		SSIMIT	Aston's Corpus use and learning to translate
Various	Dorothy Kenny and Gaby Saldanha	Dublin City University	Temporary trial -- translation course
Various	Lynne Bowker	University of Ottowa	Temporary trial -- translation course
Various		University of Oslo
Learner corpora	Sylviane Granger	UCL
Arabic-English	Sattar Izwaini	UMIST	Building specialised corpora for translation studies
Chinese-English	Marjorie Chan	Ohio State University
Chinese-English	Wallace Chen
Chinese/Wa	Richard Kunst Justin Watkins	SOAS	Wa Dictionary Project
Czech-English	Dominik Lukes		Parallel corpus available
Czech-English	Frantisek Cermak and Alexandr Rosen	Charles University	Czech National Corpus
Danish-English??	Henrik Gottlieb	Center for Translation Studies and Lexicography, University of Copenhagen
French-English	Raf Salkie	University of Brighton	Using parallel corpora in translation
French-English	Geoffrey Williams
French-English?	Hélène.Chuquet	Poitiers
French-English?	Noëlle Serpollet	Lancaster University
German-English??	Brigitta.Mittmann	University of Augsburg
German-English??	Ilse Friede	Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet
German-English	Juliane House and Nicole Baumgarten	University of Hamburg
Hungarian-English	Monika Szirmai
Italian-English	Mare Hédiard	??
Italian-English??	Margherita Ulrych	Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori, Trieste
Italian-English	Federico Zanettin	??	Bilingual Comparable Corpora and the Training of Translators
Japanese-English	CHUJO, Kiyomi	Nihon University	Japanese-English Newspaper
Japanese-English	HIDAI, Shigeyuki
Japanese-English	OHARA, Kyoko Hirose	Keio University
Japanese-English	YAMAMOTO, Ryoichi	Teikyo University of Science & Technology
Japanese-English	KONDO, Fumiko	University of Birmingham (PhD Student)	Aligning Japanese-English text; corpus linguistics
Korean-English??	LEE, Chungmin	Seoul National University
Slavic	C.E. Keijsper and A. Barentsen, Amsterdam?
Slovene	S. Vinta	article
Spanish-English	Juan Zarandon Fernández
Spanish-English??	Margarita Pinos Pérez
Swedish?	Karin Aijmer, P-O Nilsson, A-L Fredriksson	Göteborg University
Swedish?	Ulf Magnusson	Luleå University of Technology
Turkish-English	Chris Meeder
Xhosa, etc.	Kim Wallmach	UNISA
??	Paul Johnston	UMIST
??	Szilvia Papp	University of Portsmouth

Other resources

Compiling Japanese-Russian Aligned Parallel Corpus