Comparing Corpora with Wordsmith Keywords

Auteurs

  • Tony Berber Sardinha

Mots-clés :

Corpus Linguistics, KeyWords, corpora, WordSmith Tools

Résumé

In this article, I review some of the features available for language analysis in the KeyWords tool of WordSmith (Scott, 1996). In general, KeyWords has proved a reliable tool for comparing language samples, be them texts or corpora. Its results have helped identify not only differences across texts but also within texts. I present some arguments related to the use of chi-square in comparing word frequencies, and propose two techniques for extracting a representative subset of key words for analysis.

Biographie de l'auteur

Tony Berber Sardinha

Tony Berber Sardinha holds a PhD in English from the University of Liverpool. He is currently Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of São Paulo, where he carries out research in Corpus Linguistics.

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Sardinha, T. B. (2012). Comparing Corpora with Wordsmith Keywords. The ESPecialist, 22(1). Consulté à l’adresse https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/esp/article/view/9420

Numéro

Vol. 22 No 1 (2001)

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