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Summary

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Note: The input text format should be plain text. If you submit an XML or HTML text, the tool will strip all the tags, and then process it as plain text. For best results with XML or HTML text, it is suggested to use XML-specific or HTML-specific tools.

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Walkthrough

  1. Source text
    1. Enter `http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext91/peter16.txt' in the Text source URL field;
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  3. Results
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» Source text
  Example: http://taporware.mcmaster.ca/sampleDocs/plainText.txt


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Summary

Determines the text source. Text can be obtained from a URL or by uploading a file.

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Source 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.

Treat XML/HTML as plain text
Enabling this option will strip tags from an HTML or XML document. <p> and <br /> in HTML documents and all tags in XML documents are converted to new lines (i.e. \n).
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» Date limited to






(Name of month, year, week, season or holiday)
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» Results
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Summary

Allows the user to choose how the results will be formatted and whether they should be displayed in a new browser window.

Fields

Display as
Determines the format in which results will be delivered

Open results in new window
Checking this box will display the results in a new window. This option is selected by default. In some cases pop-up blockers may disallow windows from being created, in which case this option may be de-selected.
`*' indicates a required field

 

 

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