Wordsmith Tools

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Wordsmith Tools

• Stella E. O. Tagnin - USP
• Corpus Linguistics, Translation and Terminology
• New Technologies in Translation - CAPES
• Universitat Rovira i Virgili-Universidade de São
  Paulo
• Tarragona
• July 8-11, 2008

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• How to use Wordsmith Tools to investigate a
  corpus

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First

• Download demo version of Wordsmith Tools 5.0
  from Mike Scotts site
• http//www.lexically.net/wordsmith/version5/index.
  html

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• Name Tarragona and USP
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• gt Registration SA00.3461.2978.3904.6880.9VVB
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• gt EXACTLY as you see them here.
• gt Please see "readme.txt" for any further
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WordSmith Tools

• WordList
• S General Statistics
• F Frequency
• A Alphabetical
• KeyWords
• Study Corpus vs Reference Corpus
• Concord
• KWIC Key Word In Context
• Collocates
• Clusters

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WordList

• S General Statistics overview of corpus and
  texts
• F Frequency most frequent words may point to
  topic
• A Alphabetical make lemmatizing easier

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WordList - Statistics

• Identifying peculiarities
• corpus (Overall)
• each text

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Frequency WordList

• Hint as to topic
• Survey of most recurrent words in text/corpus

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Alphabetical WordList

• Spotting words
• Lemmatizing word forms

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KeyWords

• Identifying prevailing vocabulary
• Study Corpus vs Reference Corpus

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Keywords
N WORD FREQ. WCUPING.LST FREQ. REFENG2.LST
KEYNESS P 1 CUP 1.024 0,77 1 3.291,6 0,000000 2
WORLD 1.197 0,90 301 0,06 2.496,9 0,000000 3 TEAM
575 0,43 48 1.538,4 0,000000 4 GAME 486 0,36 22 1
.396,6 0,000000 5 HIS 714 0,53 257 0,05 1.296,2 0
,000000 6 GERMANY 435 0,33 14 1.284,9 0,000000 7 S
OCCER 374 0,28 0 1.206,4 0,000000 8 HE 778 0,58 42
9 0,08 1.130,6 0,000000 9 ITALY 332 0,25 5 1.021,
0 0,000000 10 SAID 670 0,50 343 0,06 1.017,6 0,00
0000 11 WAS 892 0,67 716 0,13 987,2 0,000000 12 P
LAYERS 337 0,25 15 969,6 0,000000 13 GOAL 352 0,26
51 851,9 0,000000 14 BALL 260 0,19 2 815,9 0,0000
00 15 IN 3.214 2,40 7.019 1,31 761,0 0,000000 16
COACH 229 0,17 0 738,5 0,000000 17 TOURNAMENT 205
0,15 0 661,0 0,000000 18 SPORTS 234 0,18 13 658,5
0,000000 19 PLAY 264 0,20 37 643,5 0,000000 20 FR
ANCE 208 0,16 6 618,7 0,000000 21 FANS 193 0,14 1
610,2 0,000000 22 MATCH 265 0,20 49 604,4 0,000000
23 MINUTE 206 0,15 9 593,5 0,000000 24 BRAZIL 209
0,16 19 551,6 0,000000 25 WIN 193 0,14 15 521,2 0
,000000
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Comparing 2 WordLists

• Positive keywords (occurring vocabulary)
• Negative keywords (NON-occurring vocabulary)

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... and vocabulary that does NOT occur

• Negative keywords

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Compiling a Glossary

• Selecting Terms
• Keywords term candidates (terminology)
• Concord - context
• Collocates
• Clusters multiword combinations, not
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Concord

• KWIC Key Word In Context
• Collocates
• Clusters

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Identifying patterns

• Context
• Concordance lines
• Lexical patterns collocations
• Grammatical patterns colligations

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Collocates

• Position of most frequent co-occurring words

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Compiling a Glossary

• Selection of Terms
• Keywords
• Clusters

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Clusters de 3 palavras
3-word clusters
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WordList

• With more than one term
• gt Settings
• gt Tab List
• gt WordList Tab
• gt Clusters
• gt Activated

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WordList 2 words
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WordList 3 words
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How to ignore undesired text

• By tagging
• Title
• Subtitle
• Figure
• Date
• URL
• etc.

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Adjusting Settings

• Controller
• ? Settings
• ? Adjust Settings
• ? Only part of file

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Viewer Aligner

• Views all texts
• Aligns parallel texts

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Another aligner

• VisualTCA - Sentence alignment visualization
• http//www.nilc.icmc.usp.br/nilc/tools/pagina-visu
  altca/visualtca/tca.htm

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AntConc 3.2.2

• http//www.antlab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/software.html