Monday, October 21, 2013

Wordlist creator

One of the best I came across today from Cybertext

TextSTAT

From http://neon.niederlandistik.fu-berlin.de/en/textstat/ (After several hours of not being able to access their website [hopefully this was a small glitch on the day I tried], I FINALLY got to their web page and downloaded their software.)

  • Simple to install and to run.
  • The interface was pretty intuitive and I rarely needed to access the Help, except to get started (you have to create a ‘corpus’ first, which is like a container file into which you can add your files, then you click the Frequency button to get a Word list.)
  • It deals with Word documents (no need to convert them to text).
  • Double-clicking a word in the Word List opens the Concordance tab showing that word in context. Double-clicking the line in the Concordance tab opens the Citation tab where you can see the word/line inside its paragraph in the document; you also get a link to the document so you can open it from the TextSTAT application.
  • You can export your word list to a text or CSV file, or to Word or Excel.
  • Overall assessment — it did everything I wanted. It’s a keeper!
  • Cost: Free!

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