Exploring Word Sense and Tense in a Simple Text
This recipe takes a text and explores the tenses and senses of word usage by combining the use of a sense finding service, the Concordance and Collocation Tools.
Ingredients
- An electronic text to explore
- A Sense Finding Tool such as Eva at POETS
- A Collocation tool such as the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool
- A Concordance tool such as the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool
- A List Words Tool such as TAPoR List Words Tool
This recipe needs a good exercise to demonstrate how to Explore Word Sense and Tense in a Simple Text?Steps
- Take an electronic text from a source such as Project Gutenberg or one which you may already have.
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- Generate a word list (sorted by frequency) using the TAPoR List Words Tool;
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- Compile a list of words that you are particularly interested in;
- Explore these keywords using TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool to find their context;
- Use a sense finding service such as Eva at POETS to obtain a list of known senses of particular words;
- Explore how the sense of particular words is related to key words by using TAPoR Find Collocates Tool;
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 Exploring Word Sense and Tense in a Simple 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 List Words Tool