• A Concordance tool such as the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool
• A List Words tool such as the TAPoR List Words Tool

1. Generate a word list (sorted by frequency) using the TAPoR List Words Tool;
2. Consider the contexts of the particular words that appear in the resulting list using TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool;

Explore a Text in a Foreign Language

• Exercise to Explore a Text in a Foreign Language^?

• Information about the TAPoR Concordance Tool
• Information about the TAPoR Co-occurrence Tool

• An electronic text in a language foreign to you to explore and attempt to comprehend;
• 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 to a sample text in Exercise 12 Explore a Text in a Foreign Language^?

1. Generate a word list (sorted by frequency) using the List Words Tool;
2. Consider the contexts of the particular words that appear in the resulting list using Find Words - Concordance Tool;

• List of All Recipes
• Exercise: Explore a Text in a Foreign Language^?
• Help with Particular Tools
• Background on Text Analysis

1. A List Words tool such as the TAPoR List Words Tool
2. A Concordance tool such as the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool

1. Generate a word list (sorted by frequency) using the List Words Tool;
2. Consider the contexts of the particular words that appear in the resulting list using Find Words - Concordance Tool;

Stop List

A Stop list is a series of words that you may choose to exclude from a particular operation because you deem them to be irrelevant or obstructive to your analysis task. If you are searching for descriptive terms for example, you may choose to exclude function words normally occuring as part of everyday speech. Your interest may lie only in extraordinary words.

A Complete Glossary

Glossary

Collocation

Collocation

Collocation refers to the occurrence of words adjacently more often than would be expected by chance.
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Concordance

Concordance

A Concordance is a gathering of passages that "concord" or agree. Usually it is a gathering of passages with a sought for word.
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Databench

Databench

The Databench is a temporary workspace where you can store your text analysis results in the TAPoR for further use.
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Googlizer

Googlizer

The Googlizer queries the Google search engine using a word or phrase you provide and returns the results of the Google search.
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KWIC (Key Word in Context)

KWIC

A Key Word In Context (or KWIC) is a display of results in which the word searched for, the keyword, is in the centre surrounded by one line of context. This is how concordances are usually displayed. Here is an example that shows the occurrences of the word "dream" in A Midsummer Night's Dream in TACTweb:

I.1/577.1        | Four nights will quickly dream away the time; | And
I.1/578.2   Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; | Brief as the
II.2/585.1        | Ay me, for pity! what a dream was here! | Lysander,
III.2/591.1    this derision | Shall seem a dream and fruitless vision, |
IV.1/593.1      as the fierce vexation of a dream. | But first I will
IV.1/594.2    to me | That yet we sleep, we dream. Do not you think | The
IV.1/594.2      rare | vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to
IV.1/594.2     the wit of man to | say what dream it was: man is but an
IV.1/594.2    he go | about to expound this dream. Methought I was--there
IV.1/594.2     his heart to report, what my dream | was. I will get Peter
IV.1/594.2      to write a ballad of | this dream: it shall be called
IV.1/594.2      it shall be called Bottom's dream, | because it hath no
V.1/599.1       | Following darkness like a dream, | Now are frolic: not a
V.1/599.2   theme, | No more yielding but a dream, | Gentles, do not

MyTexts

MyTexts

This is an area of the TAPoR in which you collect your private texts for analysis. It is also a portal to access publicly available texts which have been added by other users. In this area you can view the catalogue of texts available to you or add, edit, tag, and view the contents of specific texts.
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MyTools

MyTools

This is an area within the TAPoR in which you can collect and experimwnt with text analalysis tools for your use.
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Workbench

Workbench

This is the analysis area of the TAPoR in which you apply text analysis tools to texts.
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Panels

Panel

The TAPoR Portal organizes information in panels (sometimes called portlets or coplets.) These can me minimized, maximized and closed using the three buttons in the upper left-hand corner of the panel.
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StopList

Stop List

A Stop list is a series of words that you may choose to exclude from a particular operation because you deem them to be irrelevant or obstructive to your analysis task. If you are searching for descriptive terms for example, you may choose to exclude function words normally occuring as part of everyday speech. Your interest may lie only in extraordinary words.
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TAPoRize

TAPoRize

One of the features of the TAPoR portal is that it gives you a bookmark with which to acquire texts into your myTexts Library quickly. You will find the TAPoRize bookmark on the myTexts page of your account under the Help link. Just drag it to your Bookmarks Bar or Favorities Bar. From then on you can acquire a text (add it to your myTexts) by clicking on the Bookmark when you are looking at the text.
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Text Encoding

Text Encoding

One of the most important aspects of the text input process is the encoding of the text which you are working with. It must be encoded as either UTF8 or Latin-1, which provides proper mapping of accented and other extended characters. See the links below for more background information on encoding processes. For example, when propoerly encoded the charcter 'e' is differentiated from the character 'é' and 'é' is not seen as the character 'e' + some symbol.
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UTF8

UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Character Encoding)

Unicode character encoding is an evolution of the ASCII set to permit support of a greater number of alphanumeric characters including those with diacritical marks such as accents. More information on UTF-8 is available at:Wikipedia

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WordCloud

Word Cloud

A visual presentation of keywords drawn from a text, visually differentiated based on their position and frequency of use in that text.
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Recipe 12 : 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.

Ingredients

1. An electronic text in a language foreign to you to explore and attempt to comprehend;
2. A List Words tool such as the TAPoR List Words Tool
3. A Concordance tool such as the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool

Steps

1. Take an electronic text in a language which you are not fluent;
2. Generate a word list (sorted by frequency) using the List Words Tool;
3. Apply a stop list of words in the language of the text you are examining;
4. Consider the contexts of the particular words that appear in the resulting list using Find Words - Concordance Tool;

Discussion

Glossary

Further approaches

Next Steps/Further Information

1. List of All Recipes
2. Exercise: Explore a Text in a Foreign Language^?
3. Help with Particular Tools
4. Background on Text Analysis

-- ShawnDay - 13 Feb 2006