Test Assumptions about
Syntactic Dependencies within a Text
This recipe takes a text with known syntactic dependencies and explores those using tools such as Word List, Concordance, Co-Occurrence and Collocation.
Ingredients
- An electronic text containing known dependencies to explore
- A Collocation tool such as the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool
- A Concordance tool such as the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool
- A Co-occurence Tool such as TAPoR Find Co-occurrence Tool
- A List Words tool such as the TAPoR List Words Tool
This recipe needs a good exercise showing how to Test Assumptions about Syntactic Dependencies within a Text?Steps
- Take an electronic text from a source such as Project Gutenberg
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- Generate a word list (sorted by frequency) using the TAPoR List Words Tool ;
- Identify words that may be syntactically dependant;
- Use a Co-Occurrence Tool such as TAPoR Find Co-occurrence Tool to find examples of these word combinations;
- Use a Collocation tool such as TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to generate a list of other relationships.
Discussion
Finding a Text
Possible sources for electronic texts are listed on the Electronic Texts Panel of TAPoR. When preparing text for analysis, you should be aware that academic infrastructure included in the text may obstruct reading the text for its original construction. It may be useful to remove notes and other materials added by subsequent authors from the original work. You can use tools such TAPoR Extract Text to remove added material.Using a Word List
The word list can provide a first clue about the nature of the text. Questions which can be asked of the word list may include:- What are the basic preoccupations of this text?
- What is unusual in the text?
Glossary
A Complete GlossaryNext Steps/Further Information
- List of All Recipes
- Exercise to Test Assumptions about Syntactic Dependencies within a Text?
- Help with Particular Tools
- Background on Text Analysis
- Information about the TAPoR Collocation Tool
- Information about the TAPoR Concordance Tool
- Information about the TAPoR Co-occurrence Tool
- Information about the TAPoR List Words Tool