TAPoR Portal Recipes

This page describes common or interesting sequences of actions, or recipes, for the TAPoR portal. They are organized according to the objective of the recipe. Recipes fall into the three categories of location and identification of ideas, themes or specific terms; analysis of textual devices or themes; or the construction of new entities or corpus. There are also a set of three tutorial recipes included to introduce three common and specific tasks using TAPoR Tools.

The TAPoR community benefits from shared experience and learning how others make use of the portal. You can share your experience by adding your own recipes to the collection. More information about recipe and exercise structure and authoring is available on the RecipeStructure page. We also have a Glossary that we hope you will add to.

If you feel you can improve a recipe, or find a problem with an existing recipe, please edit the existing recipe and indicate your name and the date at the bottom of the modified recipe or exercise. To edit a recipe you must be registered with TADA, but this is a relatively painless task and can be accomplished simply by messaging Stéfan Sinclair. If you have hints, tips or would simply like to comment on how a recipe has worked for you, please add a comment at the bottom of the page in the comments box. This does not require a TADA account.

Locate and Identify
Analyse
Construct
Tutorial
Experimental Draft Recipes
- Compare Two Texts

Locate and Identify

Identify Simple Themes within Text

This recipe takes a text which is rich in themes and uses tools such as word frequency, concordance, and collocation to identify simple themes.

Recipe: Identify Themes
Exercise: Identify Themes
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Identify Syntactic Dependencies within Text

This recipe uses tools such as concordance and co-occurrence to identify syntactic dependencies within a text.

Recipe: Identify Syntactic Dependencies within a Text
Exercise: Identify Syntactic Dependencies within a Text^?

Explore A Text in a Foreign Language

This recipe examines a text in a foreign language and demonstrates a strategic approach to comprehension using text analysis tools.

Recipe: Explore a Text in a Foreign Language
Exercise: Explore a Text in a Foreign Language^?

Add French Language Text to TAPoR

This recipe takes a French language text and adds it to a Text Analysis Workspace.

Aggregate Information to Explore a Concept

This recipe uses the Googlizer, word frequency lists, concordances and collocation to efficiently explore information from the web for a particular topic.

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Explore Specific Themes in a Text

This recipes takes a text with known themes and uses tools such as concordance, collocation, and co-occurrence to elabourate upon and explore the context of themes in the text.

Explore Dynamically Aggregated Text

This recipe uses the Googlizer Tool to generate Dynamically Aggregated Text and then uses tools such as a word frequency list and concordance to explore the results.

Explore Colloquial Word Use in Text

This recipe takes a text and explores the use of colloquial word within it using tools such as word list, concordance, and collocation.

Analyzing Theoretical Foundations in Text

This recipe takes a text and explores its use of theory by using tools such as word list, concordance, and collocation.

Explore Word Sense and Tense in Text

This recipe explores the tenses and senses of word usage in a text by combining the use of a sense finding service, and concordance and collocation Tools.

Recipe: Exploring Word Sense and Tense in a Simple Text
Exercise: Exploring Word Sense and Tense in a Simple Text^?

Test Assumptions about Syntactic Dependencies within Text

This recipe takes a text with known syntactic dependencies and explores those using tools such as word frequency list, concordance, co-occurrence and collocation.

Recipe: Test Assumptions about Syntactic Dependencies within a Text
Exercise: Test Assumptions about Syntactic Dependencies within a Text^?

Extract Screenplay Dialogue to Explore Linear Discourse

This recipe extracts and examines a character’s dialogue from a play to explore a particular discourse in a linear fashion.

Compare Texts to Verify Authorship

This recipe takes two texts which are suspected to be from the same author and compares them to determine similarities in structure, word usage and other textual patterns.

Explore Concepts in a Text

This recipe takes a text which is rich in concepts and uses tools such as word frequency list, concordance, co-occurrence and collocation to explore a specific concept.

Recipe: Explore Concepts
Exercise: Explore Concepts^?

Visualize Text Analysis Results in Excel

This recipe takes data provided by textual analysis tools and uses Microsoft Excel to create graphs to aid in its interpretation.

Recipe: Compile Textual Data and Visualize Using Excel
Exercise: Compile Textual Data and Visualize Using Excel^?

Clarify Your Writing with Text Analysis Tools

This recipe uses word frequency lists and concordance to determine the impact and clarity of your own writing in meeting your intentions.

Recipe: Use Text Analysis Tools to Clarify the Intentions of Your Own Writing
Exercise: Use Text Analysis Tools to Clarify the Intentions of Your Own Writing^?

Explore Changes in Language Use by a Particular Writer

This recipe uses the Googlizer, word requency lists, concordances and collocation to explore how a writer’s use of language changes over a lifetime.