Corpus Presenter – Software for Examining Text Corpora
Download Version 2026
[ Build 2.0, March 2026 ]
If you download the installation file from the above link, make sure you start it via a right-button mouse click using the option “Run as administrator” – this is necessary to ensure that all components are properly installed on your computer.
Technical notes:
1) Corpus Presenter is written for the Windows operating system. It will not work on an Apple computer or any device (phone or tablet) using the Android operating system.
2) During installation, Corpus Presenter will check that Microsoft .NET Framework (3.5 or later) is installed on your computer. It probably is, but if not, it will try to download this from the internet (that’s normal procedure and is perfectly safe – you should let the program do this). Microsoft .NET Framework is necessary for Corpus Presenter to function properly.
Corpus Presenter – Tutorials
Corpus Presenter — Introduction
Corpus Presenter — Tutorial 1: Quick and blitz searches
Corpus Presenter — Tutorial 2: Advanced searches
Corpus Presenter — Tutorial 3: Generating concordances
Corpus Presenter — Tutorial 4: Making word lists
Corpus Presenter — Tutorial 5: Examining lexical clusters
Corpus Presenter — Tutorial 6: Pre- and postprocessing of texts
Corpus Presenter — Tutorial 7: Additional utilities
Corpus Presenter — Sample tasks
The program suite Corpus Presenter was first published as a book with a CD in 2003 by John Benjamins (click here) along with A Corpus of Irish English as material to practise text examination. In the more than twenty years since then the programs have been expanded considerably. The current version (2026, Build 2.0) represents a major overhaul of the existing program (vis à vis the many releases in the meantime). It is simple to install and can be run by a single click on a desktop icon. The main program allows you to carry out various searches straight away on any textual data you might have access to (as files on your computer, your own or downloaded from another source). Files can be shown as branches of a tree on the screen and search results can be exported easily to common formats, such as Excel spreadsheets, which can then be used for statistical analysis and incorporated into your published research.
Raymond Hickey
March 2026
raymond.hickey@uni-due.de
