Compiling a concordance principally involves (1) identifying all of the occurrences of a given lexeme/word and (2) selecting the context to be displayed for each occurrence. Miklal’s Concordancer software combines natural language processing and machine learning with user-friendly visualizations to accelerate this process for the compiler and yield a highest-quality resource for the reader.
Concordancer was recently used to produce the ESV Exhaustive Concordance, published by Crossway Books. If you are interested in using our software for producing a new concordance, please contact us.
The Concordancer Tool
The following video provides a demonstration of Miklal’s Concordancer software.
Features
Verse Mode
The user may view a verse at a time, and select the appropriate context for each word in the verse. Words are color-coded to indicate the maximum context that will fit on one line of the concordance: from red word to red word will fit on a line, or from purple to purple, etc. The user simply adjusts the box to select the desired portion. The images below illustrate this process:
Often, all the user has to do is approve the algorithmically-generated guesses. Natural language processing algorithms provide an initial “guess” for each word, and machine learning helps the algorithms to become increasingly accurate as the user progresses through the context selections.
Concordance Mode and Search
The user may also view a list of all of the occurrences of a lexeme with their selected contexts, as they will appear in the concordance list, rather than as they appear in their verse, and select the desired context for each one that way.
Concordance mode also allows the user to perform complex searches on the text, including surface forms, parts of speech, and frequency ranges.
The images below are screenshots from the software in Concordance mode.
Interested?
If you are interested in using our software to produce a new concordance, please let us know.