TAPoR Text Analysis

Visual Collocator

Summary

The Visual Collocator displays collocates of words using a graph layout. Words which share similar collocates will be drawn together in the graph, producing new insight into the text.

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Walkthrough

Example: fetch HTML from http://www.w3.org/; extract text found between <body> and </body>; limit the resulting text to strings that contain instances of the word `web'; display up to ten words before and after each match; sort co-occurring words by frequency.

Source text
1. Enter `http://www.w3.org/' in the URL field.
Subtext limited to
1. Enter `body' in the Elements field.
What to find
1. Enter `web' in the Word/Pattern field.
Context for concordance
1. From the Context drop-down menu, select Words;
2. enter `10' in the Context length field.
Results
1. Select Co-occuring words by frequency from the Sort drop-down menu.

	URL:
	Example: http://www.w3.org/

Local file:

Summary

Determines the source. HTML, XML, or plain text can be obtained from a URL or by uploading a file.

Fields

URL
Text from the entered URL will be used as the data source for the analysis.

Local file
Use this field to upload a local file for analysis.

» Subtext limited to

Elements: (separate multiple elements with a `,')

Summary

Limits included text to text that appears within the spacified tag(s). Multiple tags should be delimited by commas. Leaving this field empty will include all text in the aggregate.

Fields

Elements
The text extraction will be restricted to the tag(s) entered here. Multiple tags should be separated by commas.

Word/Pattern:
Exclude modified Glasgow Stop Words

Summary

Filters results based on the occurence of words, phrases or patterns in the input text.

Fields

Word(s) to find
Enter a word or phrase to be searched for within the text. Separate multiple words with commas. Quotations are not needed in searching for phrases.

Pattern to Find
Enter a regular expression to search for within the text. Unix style searching may also be used.

Use Glasgow Stop Words
Words found in the Glasgow Stop Words list will be filtered.

Context:

Context length:

Summary

Allows user to define context type (e.g. words or sentences) and length.

Fields

Context

Words
places the search term in context by the specified number of words.

Lines
places the search term in context by the specified number of lines.

Sentences
places the search term in context by the specified number of sentences.

Context Length
Indicates the number of words/lines/sentences to be displayed before and after the search term for context purposes.

Sort:

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