Download version -- Single User $89. If you want the CDROM and printed manual version of ParaConc ($95 plus $8 shipping) or a site licence, please navigate to the main Software folder. ParaConc is a powerful bilingual or multilingual Windows concordancer with an intuitive user interface. It is used in contrastive analyses, language learning, and translation studies/training. The screen shot is the result of carrying out a search for "head"; then having the software guess at the translation; highlighting the translation and displaying it in a KWIC format. This is one way of examining translation of collocations and phrases in two languages. More representative uses involve the identification of "equivalent" constructions in two languages. The software is typically used with a pair of translations, but it is also possible to work with up to four different translations. In other words, you can have an original text and three translations or you can have an original text plus translations in three diferent languages. Most ParaConc buyers are teachers or researchers. Many corpus-based contrastive studies are carried out using ParaConc and many universities with translation studies programs use ParaConc in a computer lab setting.

For the software to function, the translated texts must be aligned. It is possible to get aligned files of European Parliament proceedings etc., but if it is necessary to do the alignment there is an alignment utility or you can use stand-alone aligners such as WinAlign or Vanilla Aligner.

The package includes a 110-page "manual", ParaConc and Parallel Corpora in Contrastive and Translation Studies. This is a pdf file. In addition, the package contains the exec file. There is no installation utility. Simply copy the files to the appropriate folder.

To download the software and manual, click on the BUY NOW button. (Do not choose the Add to Cart option.) You will be taken to the e-junkie.com site where the software is stored. You will be prompted for credit card info and then given the link to download the zip file. The link will also be sent to you via email. For info on the download process, read the short GUIDE.