Identify Syntactic Dependencies within a Text
This recipe uses tools such as Collocation and Co-Occurence to explore the syntactic dependencies within the textual construction.
Ingredients
- A text with known dependencies
- A Collocation tool such as the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool
- A Co-occurrence tool such as the TAPoR Find Co-occurrence Tool
This recipe needs a good exercise to demonstrate how toIdentify Syntactic Dependencies within a Text? Steps
- Take an electronic text from a source such as Project Gutenberg or provide one of your own
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- Use the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool using one of your target words as the input;
- Examine list for words whose mutual occurrence you are interest in;
- Use the TAPoR Find Co-occurrence Tool with various word pairs indcated by the Collocates search to explore the relationship between words.
Discussion
Finding a Text
Sources for electronic texts are listed on the Electronic Texts Panel of TAPoR. When preparing text for analysis, you should be aware that… what improves… what can obstruct?.Glossary
A Complete GlossaryNext Steps/Further Information
- List of All Recipes
- Exercise to Identify 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