Find Collocated Words
This is a recipe to find collocated words for a key word
Ingredients
- An electronic text to explore
- A Collocation tool such as the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool
This recipe is applied to a sample text in Find Collocated WordsSteps
- Get an electronic text from a source such as Project Gutenberg
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- Choose a keyword you are interested in;
- Find collocated words using the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool;
- Explore the results for interesting combonations of words.
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.Glossary
A Complete GlossaryNext Steps/Further Information
- List of All Recipes
- Exercise Identifying Themes within a Text
- Help with Particular Tools
- Background on Text Analysis
- Information about the TAPoR Collocation Tool