Exploring Concepts
This recipe takes a text which is rich in concepts and uses tools such as word frequency, concordance, co-occurrence and collocation to explore a specific concept.
Ingredients
- An electronic text which is rich in concepts
- 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 the TAPoR Find Co-occurrence Tool
- A List Words tool such as the TAPoR List Words Tool
This recipe needs a good exercise to demonstrate how to Explore Concepts?Steps
- Use a List Words tool such as TAPoR List Words Tool to list the words in a text sorted by frequency.
- Choose a concept term that appears in the text
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- Use a Concordance tool such as the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool to see how the term is used;
- Use a Collocation tool such as the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to see what words collocate with the original concept term;
- Repeat 1 - 3 using collocating terms.
- Use a Co-occurence tool such as TAPoR Find Co-occurrence Tool find passages that have pairs of concept terms.
Discussion
Concepts
Concepts are usually discussed in a text using unambiguous vocabulary so search for words associated with a concept will find relevant passages. This recipe shows how you can follow a web of concepts looking at words that co-locate.Glossary
A Complete GlossaryNext Steps/Further Information
- List of All Recipes
- Exercise Exploring Concepts 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