Aggregate Information from the Web
To Explore a Particular Concept
This recipe uses the Googlizer, frequency lists, concordances and collocation to efficiently explore information from the web for a particular topic.
This recipe is available as a PDF download.Ingredients
- A topic in which you are interested
- A Thesaurus Tool such as Eva at POETS
- An Aggregation Tool such as the TAPoR Googlizer
- 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 the TAPoR List Words Tool
This recipe is applied in Exercise to Aggregate Information from the Web To Explore a Particular Concept.Steps
- Identify your topic;
- Use a thesaurus tool such as Eva at POETS to find related words that may help to identify your topic;
- Login to the TAPoR portal;
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- Input topic keywords into the TAPoR Googlizer to get a list of URLs and associated HTML
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- Compile the results into an Aggregated text;
- Generate a frequency list from the aggregated text using the TAPoR List Words Tool to find interesting words for further exploration;
- Choose some interesting words from the resulting list;
- Use those words one at a time in TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to explore words that appear together;
- Choose some interesting combinations of words from the resulting lists;
- Use TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool to find them in the aggregated text file or Google them as phrases in quotation marks.
Discussion
Why Login
When using an aggregation tool such as the Googlizer, you must be able to save text to the Databench as part of the process. To make this possible you must be logged into the system to maintain your own personal workspace. If you require access to TAPoR please visit the TAPoR signup page.Glossary
- Googlizer
- The Googlizer queries the Google search engine using a word or phrase you provide and returns the results of the Google search.
Next Steps/Further Information
- List of All Recipes
- Exercise to Aggregate Information from the Web To Explore a Particular Concept
- 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