One of the defining features of MonoConc Pro ($85) is its excellent user interface, making the software simple and easy to work with. Students find the program intuitive and 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 which uses statistics to identify 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. 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.

MonoConc Pro is widely used in America, Europe and Asia, mostly by teachers and researchers interested in investigating language (spoken or written) as it is actually used.

To download a demo or obtain more information, go to MP info. For questions on student packs or technical details, send email to info@athel.com. Also see www.monoconc.com.

If you do not need the CDROM and printed manual, you can download the package ($79). For details, see the Downloads folder.