WordSmith Tools 文字處理軟體

WordSmith is organic software!

Version 1.0 was launched in 1996. We have continued an organic policy of growth ever since … now in 2021 we are at version 8.0 with improvements and new features.

New features:

•Multi-word unit conversion

•Plot contexts

•Concord files processed list (automatic or manual)

•Add a Set column

•Export KeyWords database data  

•TED talks video conversion

•Enhanced key word statistics and key word display

•Part of speech tag filtering

•Multiple statistics in collocation display

•Dispersion statistic for word lists

•Lemma file building 

This program controls the Tools. It is the one which shows and alters current defaults, handles the choosing of text files, and calls up the different Tools.

It will appear at the top left corner of your screen.

You can minimise it, if you feel the screen is getting cluttered.

Concord is a program which makes a concordance using plain text or web text files.

To use it you will specify a search word, which Concord will seek in all the text files you have chosen. It will then present a concordance display, and give you access to information about collocates of the search word.

Listings can be saved for later use, edited, printed, copied to your word-processor, or saved as text files.

The purpose of this program is to locate and identify key words in a given text. To do so, it compares the words in the text with a reference set of words usually taken from a large corpus of text. Any word which is found to be outstanding in its frequency in the text is considered “key”. The key words are presented in order of outstandingness.

The distribution of the key words can be plotted.

Listings can be saved for later use, edited, printed, copied to your word-processor, or saved as text files.

This program needs access to 2 or more word lists, which must be created first, using the Word List program.