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Writing
tool: |
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- With PhraseContext
you can easily study how key-terms are used, what words they go well
together with.
- You can inductively
solve problems of grammar and lexis.
- Once problems have
been solved enter a sample of the text + the keyword + comments on it
in you PhraseBook for esay retrieval.
- Share a PhraseBook
across a network with colleagues. Or export it as an XML-file together
with a formatting XSL-file for easy access.
- The PhraseBook
is a fully editable XML-file. No database engine needed.
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Language
analysis and phraseological studies: |
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- Create wordlists
for a big corpus. PhraseContext
is tested extensively with corpora of 1,000.000 words. The wordlist
gives actual word counts, and percent of the total number of tokens
in the corpus. Calculates word lengths.
- Get the context
of selected keywords (more than 2,000 Key-Words-In-Context are produced
in less than 1 sec.from a 1,000.000 word corpus.
- In one go:
greate Keyword-In-Context of a series of words.
- Calculate
Type/Token ratio of a large number of files.
- Retrieve clusters
of a length between 3 to 6 words. Analyse the context ("concordance")
of these clusters.
- Get collocations
(span of 4 words left and right of keyword/expression). Calculate statistical
significance - T-score, Z-Score and Mutual Information in just one grid.
- Easy export to
textformat - for saving or copying into a report - of clusters, citations,
wordlist and collocations.
- Share wordlists
and citations through export to XML-format - and apply a XSL-formatting
style-sheet.
- Sentence length
analysis - both in key numerical figures and as a chart - save this
to a "bmp"-file.
- Complex Regular
Expression's search patterns. Editor with syntax highlighting.
- Very easy creation
of custom "stoplist" for calculation of lexical density. Once
created the stoplist can be saved and reloaded.
- Save citations
and wordlist to PhraseContext's
own format for easy and and fast reloading
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Literature
analysis. |
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- Discover a novel,
poem og play's keyterms' linguistic surroundings. Did you know, for
example, that in Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House the most
frequent collocations of "mann" (i.e. man) are the possessive
pronouns my, your, yours! That the expression "hva er det"
('what is that'/'what is it') occurs 32 times - and is the most frequent
3-word cluster in the play. That in Walter Scott's Ivanhoe "noble"
and "ancient" are true collocations of Saxon, but not of Norman!
- Calculate the lexical
density of a work of literature (again: A Doll's House has a
lexical density of 48.7%)
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Teaching. |
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- Easily load your
students' essay and analyse them for known over/underuse of certain
words.
- Let your students
work with their own texts and edit them directly in PhraseContext's
editor.
- Analyse lexical
density of their writing.
- Prepare exercises.
For example: Compose a set of concordance lines which require different
modifiers, leave out the keywords and let the students fill it in. The
editing can be done directly in PhraseContext,
and the edited exercise converted to printable text. See an example
here. With a (not supplied) javascript/XSL-file
this can be converted to an interactive exercise.
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General. |
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- Single or multiple
file corpus.
- Corpus viewer is
a small editor with search/replace for interactive work.
- Full and precise
control of worddelimiters and alphabet (wordcharacters)
- Ignore html-mark-up.
- Adjust context
for sense unit - delimiters determined by you.
- Create a concordance
of all the words of a corpus.
- Plain Windows 32-bit
software and no dll's or plug-ins required.
- Load default single-file
corpus on start-up.
- Everything is made
"on-the-fly" so parametres can easily be changed and new results
presented.
- Main executable
file only 1.9 mb.
- Integrated help-file
with references to further reading and relevant specialised literature.
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