Exploring Colloquial Word Usage in a Text
This recipe takes a text and explores the use of colloquial words within it using tools such as Googlizer, concordance, co-occurrence and collocation.
Ingredients
- An Aggregator Tool such as TAPoR Googlizer
or
- An electronic text to explore
- A specific colloquial term of interest
- A List Words Tool such as TAPoR List Words Tool
- A Concordance tool such as the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool
- A Collocation tool such as the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool
- A Co-occurrence tool such as the TAPoR Find Co-occurrence Tool
This recipe is applied in Exercise Exploring Colloquial Word Usage in a Text.Steps
- Login to the TAPoR portal;
- Generate an aggregated text by supplying search terms to an aggregation tool such as TAPoR Googlizer
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- Save the results to the Databench ;
- List the words by frequency in the aggregated text using a tool such as TAPoR List Words Tool.
- Explore more frequently returned words using a tool such as TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool.
Glossary
- Databench
- The Databench is a temporary workspace where you can store your text analysis results in the TAPoR for further use.
- Googlizer
- The Googlizer queries the Google search engine using a word or phrase you provide and returns the results of the Google search.
Further approaches
Next Steps/Further Information
- List of All Recipes
- Exercise Exploring Colloquial Word Usage in 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 Googlizer Tool
- Information about the TAPoR List Words Tool