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<<O>> Difference Topic ExerciseTwentyFive (r1.8 - 23 Oct 2006 - ShawnDay)

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Aggregate Information from the Web
To Explore a Particular Concept

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Input the term leopard into a synonym finding tool such as Eva at POETS
We find the following words which may help us locate information on snow leopards:

In this case we learn that the latin name for the leopard is Panthera pardus and other memebers of this group are: lions; leopards; snow leopards; jaguars; tigers; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers.
Login to TAPoR at TAPoR portal; ;

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Input the term Snow Leopard into the into the TAPoR Googlizer which results in a set of links to web pages similar to the following:

Your 10 Ruby-Google resultsTitle: Snow Leopard
URL: http://www.agarman.dial.pipex.com/snowlep.htm
Brief Info: Offers information about the snow leopard.
Facts include habitat map, life span, and description.

Title: Snow Leopard
URL: http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/snow_leopard.html
Brief Info: Includes color photographs and facts about
the appearance, size, diet, habitat, and life span of
this solitary feline.

Title: Where Conservation Starts with Communities
Snow Leopard Trust
URL: http://www.snowleopard.org/
Brief Info: Why not order beautiful organic flowers
and benefit snow leopards at the same time!
... Learn how the Trust is protecting more than
the snow leopard....

Title: Snow Leopard Trust
URL: http://www.snowleopard.org/islt/index2.html
Brief Info: Redirect page for the flash movie, plight of
the snow leopard.

Title: Snow Leopard (Uncia uncia)
URL: http://www.bigcatrescue.org/snow_leopard.htm
Brief Info: Snow Leopard Facts, Snow Leopard
Photos, Snow Leopard Sounds and stories about
Snow Leopards can all be found at the
world's largest big cat rescue and ...

Title: Snow Leopard
URL: http://www.pbs.org/kratts/world/eurasia/leopard/index.html
Brief Info: Contains information about the snow leopard.
Information includes habitat, description, and food sources.

Title: The Snow Leopard Conservancy
URL: http://www.snowleopardconservancy.org/
Brief Info: Demonstrating innovative, grassroots measures
leading local people toward effective stewardship of the
endangered snow leopard and its habitat.

Title: Snow Leopard Mountain Sports - Goodbye to All
URL: http://www.thesnowleopard.com/close.html
Brief Info: Our staff has worked tirelessly to give you
the best service and support of any company online
and for those of you that have come to know The Snow Leopard ...

Title: Snow Leopard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_leopard
Brief Info: The snow leopard or ounce (Uncia uncia)
is a large cat native to the mountain ranges of ...
ARKive - images and movies of the snow leopard (Uncia uncia) ...

Title: Snow Leopard
URL: http://www.nature.ca/NOTEBOOKS/ENGLISH/esnowlep.htm
Brief Info: More than 150 snow leopards live in zoos where
they have been bred successfully. The snow leopard is now listed as an endangered species and is legally ...

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Input the term Snow Leopard into the into the TAPoR Googlizer which results in a set of links to web pages similar to the following:

Title: Snow Leopard Trust
URL: http://www.snowleopard.org/islt/index2.html
Brief Info: Redirect page for the flash movie, plight of
the snow leopard.

Save the results to the Databench. Note that the text saved to the Databench is in XML format.

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Use the TAPoR List Words Tool on the text in the Databench to get a to find interesting words;

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Use the TAPoR List Words Tool on the text in the Databench to get a to find interesting words;

1 The resulting word list should resemble this:

Summary: There are 114 unique words  and  there are 344
 words in total. 62 words occurred once and 
29 words occurred twice.
Words Counts
Leopard ------ 12
Snow ------ 12
Www ------ 10
The ------ 9
Org ------ 8
Info ------ 5
Brief ------ 5
Of ------ 5
And ------ 5
Snowleopard ------ 4
Conservation ------ 2
For ------ 2
Leopards ------ 2
With ------ 2
Com ------ 2
Habitat ------ 2
Conservancy ------ 2
Help ------ 2
Community ------ 2
Factsheets ------ 2

  Trust ------ 2
Kidsplanet ------ 2
Your ------ 2
Snowleopardconservancy ------ 2
Snowlep ------ 2
Common ------ 2
Is ------ 2
Appearance ------ 2
Snow_leopard ------ 2
Different ------ 1
Based ------ 1
Will ------ 1
We ------ 1
$2000 ------ 1
Photographs ------ 1
Place ------ 1
Life ------ 1
Thirty ------ 1
Endangered ------ 1

Clearly one of things we can learn from the frequency list is that snow leoprds are endangered and there are conservation efforts underway to preserve the species.

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Choose endangered from the list above and input this term along with snow leopards into TAPoR Co-Occurence Tool to confirm that it is Snow Leopards which are endangered. Choose to sort the results by frequency.

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Choose endangered from the list above and input this term along with snow leopards into TAPoR Find Co-occurrence Tool to confirm that it is Snow Leopards which are endangered. Choose to sort the results by frequency.

1 The results of this should resemble:

1 co-occurrences found
 Conservancy promotes community-based stewardship of the  
endangered

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Background on Text Analysis

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<<O>> Difference Topic ExerciseTwentyFive (r1.7 - 26 Jun 2006 - ShawnDay)

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Aggregate Information from the Web
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This exercise uses this Recipe the Googlizer, frequency lists, concordances and collocation to efficiently explore information from the web for a particular topic.

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

It applies a recipe to real textual example which is freely available on the internet so you can do the steps yourself and see the results.

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This recipe and exercise will soon be available as a PDF download.

Exercise Steps

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In this exercise we will explore the topic snow leopard;
Input the term leopard into a synonym finding tool such as Eva at POETS

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In this exercise we will explore the topic of Snow Leopards;
Input the term leopard into a synonym finding tool such as Eva at POETS

We find the following words which may help us locate information on snow leopards:

In this case we learn that the latin name for the leopard is Panthera pardus and other memebers of this group are: lions; leopards; snow leopards; jaguars; tigers; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers.
Login to TAPoR at TAPoR portal; ;

Input the term Snow Leopard into the into the TAPoR Googlizer which results in a set of links to web pages similar to the following:

Title: Snow Leopard Trust
URL: http://www.snowleopard.org/islt/index2.html
Brief Info: Redirect page for the flash movie, plight of
the snow leopard.

<<O>> Difference Topic ExerciseTwentyFive (r1.6 - 26 Jun 2006 - ShawnDay)

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Recipe 25 Exercise
Aggregate Information from the Web
To Explore a Particular Concept

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Aggregate Information from the Web
To Explore a Particular Concept

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This exercise uses Recipe 25 the Googlizer, frequency lists, concordances and collocation to efficiently explore information from the web for a particular topic.

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

It applies a recipe to real textual example which is freely available on the internet so you can do the steps yourself and see the results.

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Exercise Steps

In this exercise we will explore the topic snow leopard;

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Inputing leopard into a synonym finding tool such as Eva at POETS we find the following words which may help us locate information on snow leopards:

In this case we learn that the latin name for the leopard is Panthera pardus and other memebers of this group are: lions; leopards; snow leopards; jaguars; tigers; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers.

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Input the term leopard into a synonym finding tool such as Eva at POETS
We find the following words which may help us locate information on snow leopards:

In this case we learn that the latin name for the leopard is Panthera pardus and other memebers of this group are: lions; leopards; snow leopards; jaguars; tigers; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers.

Login to TAPoR at TAPoR portal; ;

Input the term Snow Leopard into the into the TAPoR Googlizer which results in a set of links to web pages similar to the following:

Title: Snow Leopard Trust
URL: http://www.snowleopard.org/islt/index2.html
Brief Info: Redirect page for the flash movie, plight of
the snow leopard.

Save the results to the Databench. Note that the text saved to the Databench is in XML format.
Use the TAPoR List Words Tool on the text in the Databench to get a to find interesting words;

1 The resulting word list should resemble this:

Summary: There are 114 unique words  and  there are 344
 words in total. 62 words occurred once and 
29 words occurred twice.
Words Counts
Leopard ------ 12
Snow ------ 12
Www ------ 10
The ------ 9
Org ------ 8
Info ------ 5
Brief ------ 5
Of ------ 5
And ------ 5
Snowleopard ------ 4
Conservation ------ 2
For ------ 2
Leopards ------ 2
With ------ 2
Com ------ 2
Habitat ------ 2
Conservancy ------ 2
Help ------ 2
Community ------ 2
Factsheets ------ 2

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Trust	------	2
Kidsplanet	------	2
Your	------	2
Snowleopardconservancy	------	2
Snowlep	------	2
Common	------	2
Is	------	2
Appearance	------	2
Snow_leopard	------	2
Different	------	1
Based	------	1
Will	------	1
We	------	1
$2000	------	1
Photographs	------	1
Place	------	1
Life	------	1
Thirty	------	1
Endangered	------	1

Clearly one of things we can learn from the frequency list is that snow leoprds are endangered and there are conservation efforts underway to preserve the species.

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Trust	------	2
Kidsplanet	------	2
Your	------	2
Snowleopardconservancy	------	2
Snowlep	------	2
Common	------	2
Is	------	2
Appearance	------	2
Snow_leopard	------	2
Different	------	1
Based	------	1
Will	------	1
We	------	1
$2000	------	1
Photographs	------	1
Place	------	1
Life	------	1
Thirty	------	1
Endangered	------	1

Clearly one of things we can learn from the frequency list is that snow leoprds are endangered and there are conservation efforts underway to preserve the species.

Choose endangered from the list above and input this term along with snow leopards into TAPoR Co-Occurence Tool to confirm that it is Snow Leopards which are endangered. Choose to sort the results by frequency.

1 The results of this should resemble:

1 co-occurrences found
 Conservancy promotes community-based stewardship of the  
endangered

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<b> snow leopard </b>, its prey and habitat.

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As we can see, in fact these words do co-occur and we are can conclude that it is Snow Leopards which are endangered. We can than pursue this train of thought by googling these words within quotes for a more precise exploration of this topic..

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Next Steps/Further Information

List of All Recipes

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Recipe 25 Aggregate Information from the Web To Explore a Particular Concept

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Recipe to Aggregate Information from the Web To Explore a Particular Concept

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<<O>> Difference Topic ExerciseTwentyFive (r1.5 - 12 Jun 2006 - ShawnDay)

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Recipe 25 Exercise
Aggregate Information from the Web
To Explore a Particular Concept

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Exercise Steps

In this exercise we will explore the topic snow leopard;
Inputing leopard into a synonym finding tool such as Eva at POETS we find the following words which may help us locate information on snow leopards:

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In this case we learn that the latin name for the leopard is Panthera pardus and other memebers of this group are: lions; leopards; snow leopards; jaguars; tigers; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers.

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In this case we learn that the latin name for the leopard is Panthera pardus and other memebers of this group are: lions; leopards; snow leopards; jaguars; tigers; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers.

Login to TAPoR at TAPoR portal; ;

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Input the term Snow Leopard into the into the TAPoR Googlizer which results in a set of links to web pages similar to the following:
Your 10 Ruby-Google results
1. Title: Snow Leopard
  URL: http://www.agarman.dial.pipex.com/snowlep.htm
  Brief Info: Offers information about the snow leopard. Facts include habitat map, life span, and description.
2. Title: Snow Leopard
  URL: http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/snow_leopard.html
  Brief Info: Includes color photographs and facts about the appearance, size, diet, habitat, and life span of this solitary feline.
3. Title: Where Conservation Starts with Communities Snow Leopard Trust
  URL: http://www.snowleopard.org/
  Brief Info: Why not order beautiful organic flowers and benefit snow leopards at the same time! ... Learn how the Trust is protecting more than the snow leopard....
4. Title: Snow Leopard Trust
  URL: http://www.snowleopard.org/islt/index2.html
  Brief Info: Redirect page for the flash movie, plight of the snow leopard.
5. Title: Snow Leopard (Uncia uncia)
  URL: http://www.bigcatrescue.org/snow_leopard.htm
  Brief Info: Snow Leopard Facts, Snow Leopard Photos, Snow Leopard Sounds and stories about Snow Leopards can all be found at the world's largest big cat rescue and ...
6. Title: Snow Leopard
  URL: http://www.pbs.org/kratts/world/eurasia/leopard/index.html
  Brief Info: Contains information about the snow leopard. Information includes habitat, description, and food sources.
7. Title: The Snow Leopard Conservancy
  URL: http://www.snowleopardconservancy.org/
  Brief Info: Demonstrating innovative, grassroots measures leading local people toward effective stewardship of the endangered snow leopard and its habitat.
8. Title: Snow Leopard Mountain Sports - Goodbye to All
  URL: http://www.thesnowleopard.com/close.html
  Brief Info: Our staff has worked tirelessly to give you the best service and support of any company online and for those of you that have come to know The Snow Leopard ...
9. Title: Snow Leopard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_leopard
  Brief Info: The snow leopard or ounce (Uncia uncia) is a large cat native to the mountain ranges of ... ARKive - images and movies of the snow leopard (Uncia uncia) ...
10. Title: Snow Leopard
  URL: http://www.nature.ca/NOTEBOOKS/ENGLISH/esnowlep.htm
  Brief Info: More than 150 snow leopards live in zoos where they have been bred successfully. The snow leopard is now listed as an endangered species and is legally ...

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Input the term Snow Leopard into the into the TAPoR Googlizer which results in a set of links to web pages similar to the following:

Title: Snow Leopard Trust
URL: http://www.snowleopard.org/islt/index2.html
Brief Info: Redirect page for the flash movie, plight of
the snow leopard.

Save the results to the Databench. Note that the text saved to the Databench is in XML format.
Use the TAPoR List Words Tool on the text in the Databench to get a to find interesting words;

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1 The resulting word list should resemble this:

Summary: There are 114 unique words  and  there are 344 words in total. 62 words occurred once and 29 words occurred twice.
Words Counts
Leopard ------ 12
Snow ------ 12
Www ------ 10
The ------ 9
Org ------ 8
Info ------ 5
Brief ------ 5
Of ------ 5
And ------ 5
Snowleopard ------ 4
Conservation ------ 2
For ------ 2
Leopards ------ 2
With ------ 2
Com ------ 2
Habitat ------ 2
Conservancy ------ 2
Help ------ 2
Community ------ 2
Factsheets ------ 2

  Trust ------ 2
Kidsplanet ------ 2
Your ------ 2
Snowleopardconservancy ------ 2
Snowlep ------ 2
Common ------ 2
Is ------ 2
Appearance ------ 2
Snow_leopard ------ 2
Different ------ 1
Based ------ 1
Will ------ 1
We ------ 1
$2000 ------ 1
Photographs ------ 1
Place ------ 1
Life ------ 1
Thirty ------ 1
Endangered ------ 1

Choose some interesting words from the resulting list;
Use those interesting words one at a time in Find Collocates Tool to get words that appear together, sorted by frequency;
Choose some interesting ones;
Use Find Words - Concordance Tool to find them in the aggregated text file or Google them as phrases in quotation marks.

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1 The resulting word list should resemble this:

Summary: There are 114 unique words  and  there are 344
 words in total. 62 words occurred once and 
29 words occurred twice.
Words Counts
Leopard ------ 12
Snow ------ 12
Www ------ 10
The ------ 9
Org ------ 8
Info ------ 5
Brief ------ 5
Of ------ 5
And ------ 5
Snowleopard ------ 4
Conservation ------ 2
For ------ 2
Leopards ------ 2
With ------ 2
Com ------ 2
Habitat ------ 2
Conservancy ------ 2
Help ------ 2
Community ------ 2
Factsheets ------ 2

  Trust ------ 2
Kidsplanet ------ 2
Your ------ 2
Snowleopardconservancy ------ 2
Snowlep ------ 2
Common ------ 2
Is ------ 2
Appearance ------ 2
Snow_leopard ------ 2
Different ------ 1
Based ------ 1
Will ------ 1
We ------ 1
$2000 ------ 1
Photographs ------ 1
Place ------ 1
Life ------ 1
Thirty ------ 1
Endangered ------ 1

Clearly one of things we can learn from the frequency list is that snow leoprds are endangered and there are conservation efforts underway to preserve the species.

Choose endangered from the list above and input this term along with snow leopards into TAPoR Co-Occurence Tool to confirm that it is Snow Leopards which are endangered. Choose to sort the results by frequency.

1 The results of this should resemble:

1 co-occurrences found
 Conservancy promotes community-based stewardship of the  
endangered 
 
<b>   
snow leopard   
</b>, its prey and habitat.

Next Steps/Further Information

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Background on Text Analysis

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<<O>> Difference Topic ExerciseTwentyFive (r1.4 - 12 Jun 2006 - ShawnDay)

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Recipe 25 Exercise
Aggregate Information from the Web
To Explore a Particular Concept

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Exercise Steps

In this exercise we will explore the topic snow leopard;
Inputing leopard into a synonym finding tool such as Eva at POETS we find the following words which may help us locate information on snow leopards:

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In this case we learn that the latin name for the leopard is Panthera pardus and other memebers of this group are: lions; leopards; snow leopards; jaguars; tigers; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers.

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In this case we learn that the latin name for the leopard is Panthera pardus and other memebers of this group are: lions; leopards; snow leopards; jaguars; tigers; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers.

Login to TAPoR at TAPoR portal; ;
Input the term Snow Leopard into the into the TAPoR Googlizer which results in a set of links to web pages similar to the following:
Your 10 Ruby-Google results
1. Title: Snow Leopard
  URL: http://www.agarman.dial.pipex.com/snowlep.htm
  Brief Info: Offers information about the snow leopard. Facts include habitat map, life span, and description.
2. Title: Snow Leopard
  URL: http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/snow_leopard.html
  Brief Info: Includes color photographs and facts about the appearance, size, diet, habitat, and life span of this solitary feline.
3. Title: Where Conservation Starts with Communities Snow Leopard Trust
  URL: http://www.snowleopard.org/
  Brief Info: Why not order beautiful organic flowers and benefit snow leopards at the same time! ... Learn how the Trust is protecting more than the snow leopard....
4. Title: Snow Leopard Trust
  URL: http://www.snowleopard.org/islt/index2.html
  Brief Info: Redirect page for the flash movie, plight of the snow leopard.
5. Title: Snow Leopard (Uncia uncia)
  URL: http://www.bigcatrescue.org/snow_leopard.htm
  Brief Info: Snow Leopard Facts, Snow Leopard Photos, Snow Leopard Sounds and stories about Snow Leopards can all be found at the world's largest big cat rescue and ...
6. Title: Snow Leopard
  URL: http://www.pbs.org/kratts/world/eurasia/leopard/index.html
  Brief Info: Contains information about the snow leopard. Information includes habitat, description, and food sources.
7. Title: The Snow Leopard Conservancy
  URL: http://www.snowleopardconservancy.org/
  Brief Info: Demonstrating innovative, grassroots measures leading local people toward effective stewardship of the endangered snow leopard and its habitat.
8. Title: Snow Leopard Mountain Sports - Goodbye to All
  URL: http://www.thesnowleopard.com/close.html
  Brief Info: Our staff has worked tirelessly to give you the best service and support of any company online and for those of you that have come to know The Snow Leopard ...
9. Title: Snow Leopard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_leopard
  Brief Info: The snow leopard or ounce (Uncia uncia) is a large cat native to the mountain ranges of ... ARKive - images and movies of the snow leopard (Uncia uncia) ...
10. Title: Snow Leopard
  URL: http://www.nature.ca/NOTEBOOKS/ENGLISH/esnowlep.htm
  Brief Info: More than 150 snow leopards live in zoos where they have been bred successfully. The snow leopard is now listed as an endangered species and is legally ...
Save the results to the Databench. Note that the text saved to the Databench is in XML format.
Use the TAPoR List Words Tool on the text in the Databench to get a to find interesting words;

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The resulting word list should resemble this:

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1 The resulting word list should resemble this:

Summary: There are 114 unique words  and  there are 344 words in total. 62 words occurred once and 29 words occurred twice.
Words Counts
Leopard ------ 12
Snow ------ 12
Www ------ 10
The ------ 9
Org ------ 8
Info ------ 5
Brief ------ 5
Of ------ 5
And ------ 5
Snowleopard ------ 4
Conservation ------ 2
For ------ 2
Leopards ------ 2
With ------ 2
Com ------ 2
Habitat ------ 2
Conservancy ------ 2
Help ------ 2
Community ------ 2
Factsheets ------ 2

  Trust ------ 2
Kidsplanet ------ 2
Your ------ 2
Snowleopardconservancy ------ 2
Snowlep ------ 2
Common ------ 2
Is ------ 2
Appearance ------ 2
Snow_leopard ------ 2
Different ------ 1
Based ------ 1
Will ------ 1
We ------ 1
$2000 ------ 1
Photographs ------ 1
Place ------ 1
Life ------ 1
Thirty ------ 1
Endangered ------ 1

Choose some interesting words from the resulting list;
Use those interesting words one at a time in Find Collocates Tool to get words that appear together, sorted by frequency;
Choose some interesting ones;

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Recipe 25 Exercise

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Recipe 25 Exercise
Aggregate Information from the Web
To Explore a Particular Concept

This exercise uses Recipe 25 the Googlizer, frequency lists, concordances and collocation to efficiently explore information from the web for a particular topic.

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This recipe and exercise will soon be available as a PDF download.

Exercise Steps

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In this exercise we will are intersted in the topic snow leopard;

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In this exercise we will explore the topic snow leopard;

Inputing leopard into a synonym finding tool such as Eva at POETS we find the following words which may help us locate information on snow leopards:

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<<Results of synonyms search>> format it

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In this case we learn that the latin name for the leopard is Panthera pardus and other memebers of this group are: lions; leopards; snow leopards; jaguars; tigers; cheetahs; saber-toothed tigers.

Login to TAPoR at TAPoR portal; ;

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Input the term Snow Leopard into the into the TAPoR Googlizer which results in a set of links to web pages similar to the following:

<<Results of snow leaopeard search>> format it
Save the results to the Databench.
Use the TAPoR List Words Tool on the tecxt in the Databench to get a to find interesting words;

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Input the term Snow Leopard into the into the TAPoR Googlizer which results in a set of links to web pages similar to the following:
Your 10 Ruby-Google results
1. Title: Snow Leopard
  URL: http://www.agarman.dial.pipex.com/snowlep.htm
  Brief Info: Offers information about the snow leopard. Facts include habitat map, life span, and description.
2. Title: Snow Leopard
  URL: http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/snow_leopard.html
  Brief Info: Includes color photographs and facts about the appearance, size, diet, habitat, and life span of this solitary feline.
3. Title: Where Conservation Starts with Communities Snow Leopard Trust
  URL: http://www.snowleopard.org/
  Brief Info: Why not order beautiful organic flowers and benefit snow leopards at the same time! ... Learn how the Trust is protecting more than the snow leopard....
4. Title: Snow Leopard Trust
  URL: http://www.snowleopard.org/islt/index2.html
  Brief Info: Redirect page for the flash movie, plight of the snow leopard.
5. Title: Snow Leopard (Uncia uncia)
  URL: http://www.bigcatrescue.org/snow_leopard.htm
  Brief Info: Snow Leopard Facts, Snow Leopard Photos, Snow Leopard Sounds and stories about Snow Leopards can all be found at the world's largest big cat rescue and ...
6. Title: Snow Leopard
  URL: http://www.pbs.org/kratts/world/eurasia/leopard/index.html
  Brief Info: Contains information about the snow leopard. Information includes habitat, description, and food sources.
7. Title: The Snow Leopard Conservancy
  URL: http://www.snowleopardconservancy.org/
  Brief Info: Demonstrating innovative, grassroots measures leading local people toward effective stewardship of the endangered snow leopard and its habitat.
8. Title: Snow Leopard Mountain Sports - Goodbye to All
  URL: http://www.thesnowleopard.com/close.html
  Brief Info: Our staff has worked tirelessly to give you the best service and support of any company online and for those of you that have come to know The Snow Leopard ...
9. Title: Snow Leopard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_leopard
  Brief Info: The snow leopard or ounce (Uncia uncia) is a large cat native to the mountain ranges of ... ARKive - images and movies of the snow leopard (Uncia uncia) ...
10. Title: Snow Leopard
  URL: http://www.nature.ca/NOTEBOOKS/ENGLISH/esnowlep.htm
  Brief Info: More than 150 snow leopards live in zoos where they have been bred successfully. The snow leopard is now listed as an endangered species and is legally ...
Save the results to the Databench. Note that the text saved to the Databench is in XML format.
Use the TAPoR List Words Tool on the text in the Databench to get a to find interesting words;
The resulting word list should resemble this:

Choose some interesting words from the resulting list;
Use those interesting words one at a time in Find Collocates Tool to get words that appear together, sorted by frequency;
Choose some interesting ones;

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In this exercise we will are intersted in the topic snow leopard;

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Recipe 25 Exercise

This exercise uses Recipe 25 the Googlizer, frequency lists, concordances and collocation to efficiently explore information from the web for a particular topic.

It applies a recipe to real textual example which is freely available on the internet so you can do the steps yourself and see the results.

Exercise Steps
Next Steps/Further Information

This recipe and exercise is available as a PDF download.

Exercise Steps

In this exercise we will are intersted in the topic snow leopard;
Inputing leopard into a synonym finding tool such as Eva at POETS we find the following words which may help us locate information on snow leopards:

<<Results of synonyms search>> format it
Login to TAPoR at TAPoR portal; ;
Input the term Snow Leopard into the into the TAPoR Googlizer which results in a set of links to web pages similar to the following:

<<Results of snow leaopeard search>> format it
Save the results to the Databench.
Use the TAPoR List Words Tool on the tecxt in the Databench to get a to find interesting words;
Choose some interesting words from the resulting list;
Use those interesting words one at a time in Find Collocates Tool to get words that appear together, sorted by frequency;
Choose some interesting ones;
Use Find Words - Concordance Tool to find them in the aggregated text file or Google them as phrases in quotation marks.

Next Steps/Further Information

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Aggregate Information from the WebTo Explore a Particular Concept

Aggregate Information from the WebTo Explore a Particular Concept

Exercise Steps

Recipe 25 ExerciseAggregate Information from the WebTo Explore a Particular Concept

Aggregate Information from the WebTo Explore a Particular Concept

Exercise Steps

Next Steps/Further Information

Recipe 25 ExerciseAggregate Information from the WebTo Explore a Particular Concept

Exercise Steps

Next Steps/Further Information

Recipe 25 ExerciseAggregate Information from the WebTo Explore a Particular Concept

Exercise Steps

Recipe 25 Exercise

Recipe 25 ExerciseAggregate Information from the WebTo Explore a Particular Concept

Exercise Steps

Recipe 25 Exercise

Exercise Steps

Recipe 25 Exercise

Exercise Steps

Next Steps/Further Information

Aggregate Information from the Web
To Explore a Particular Concept

Aggregate Information from the Web
To Explore a Particular Concept

Recipe 25 Exercise
Aggregate Information from the Web
To Explore a Particular Concept

Aggregate Information from the Web
To Explore a Particular Concept

Recipe 25 Exercise
Aggregate Information from the Web
To Explore a Particular Concept

Recipe 25 Exercise
Aggregate Information from the Web
To Explore a Particular Concept

Recipe 25 Exercise
Aggregate Information from the Web
To Explore a Particular Concept