Analysing Parallel Texts with ParaConc

Much of the current research on parallel corpora concerns the problem of automatic alignment of two texts that are translations of each other (Gale and Church 1994, Kay and Roscheisen 1994, Jo-hansson and Hofland 1993). This paper, however, focusses on the analysis of aligned parallel corpo-ra rather than on the aligning process itself. In order to analyse a parallel corpus a suitable text analysis program is needed. ParaConc is a simple parallel text concordance program available in Macintosh and Windows versions, which was created by the author as a tool for linguistic re-search. This program allows the user to search for a word or phrase, in the way typical of concordan-ce programs. However, the result of the search i