GraphColl

Now LancsBox

GraphColl is now known as LancsBox, and includes many new tools and features. This page is here for reference only — head to the new version.

About

GraphColl is a tool for building and exploring networks of linguistic collocations. It was developed at CASS at Lancaster University in 2014–15.

The concept and design of GraphColl is covered in Brezina et. al. (2015), published at IJCL.

Download

• Version 1.0.0
• Download the user guide

Reporting bugs

I really value your feedback. If you spot anything that’s broken or could be improved, please email bugs to graphcoll [at] stephenwattam [dot] com. Please give as much information as you can on what you were doing at the time, and what the fault is.

Use

To start using GraphColl:

1. Download it using the link above.
2. Extract the contents of the zip into a directory of your choice.
3. Run the GraphColl.jar file using Java (usually this just requires you to double-click on it — if that’s not working you may need to download Java).

Citing GraphColl

Please cite Brezina et. al. (2015). The BibTeX to do this is:

@ARTICLE {bezinaamcenerytwattams2015,
    author  = "Bezina, A and McEnery, T and Wattam, S",
    title   = "Collocations in context: A new perspective on collocation networks",
    journal = "International Journal of Corpus Linguistics",
    year    = "2015",
    volume  = "20",
    number  = "2",
    month   = "jun"
}