LancsBox

LancsBox is a cross-platform desktop application for corpus linguistics and text analysis. It provides researchers, teachers, and students with a workflow for building, annotating, querying, and exploring large text corpora. The software focuses on fast, local processing and offers an integrated set of tools for linguistic analysis.

Key functionalities include concordance search with KWIC displays, generation of frequency lists, dispersion analyses, and statistical measures of collocation and keyword significance. It supports multiple languages and can work with large corpora, including pre-annotated data from external taggers.

Data handling and outputs: LancsBox can import plain text and other common formats; it enables subcorpora creation, search filters, and export of results as plain text, CSV, or image files for inclusion in reports. It also supports saving analysis workflows as projects to facilitate reproducibility.

Reception and availability: The tool is used in linguistic research and language teaching, with documentation and tutorials provided on its official website. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux and is distributed as a standalone program.