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Expert Seminar on Linguistics: Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction

Hosted by Tony McEnery, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University (8 September 2005)

Word frequency has come to prominence as the availability of corpora has grown. Word frequency, and a focus upon relative word frequency through keyword analysis, are enabled by the availability of large quantities of machine readable text and appropriate searching software. However the approach to word frequency has changed in recent years to become more central to linguistic theory and to various applications of linguistics.

In this seminar, the presentations and discussions explored how word frequency and keywords are currently being used, and considered the implications that word frequency has for theory. Participants also discussed the new approaches that word frequency allows in the analysis of language, approaches which have wide ranging impacts on a number of areas in the arts and humanities including English, History, Modern Languages and Refugee Studies.

AHDS Methods Taxonomy Terms

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Disciplines

  • Linguistics

Methods

  • Data Analysis - Collating
  • Data Analysis - Collocating
  • Data Analysis - Concording/Indexing
  • Data Analysis - Content analysis
  • Data Analysis - Data mining
  • Data Analysis - Descriptive statistics
  • Data Analysis - Searching/querying
  • Data Analysis - Parsing
  • Data Analysis - Stylometrics
  • Data Capture - Text recognition
  • Data Capture - Usage of existing digital data
  • Data publishing and dissemination - Cataloguing / indexing
  • Data publishing and dissemination - Textual resource sharing
  • Data publishing and dissemination - Searching/querying
  • Data Structuring and enhancement - Coding/standardisation
  • Data Structuring and enhancement - Lemmatisation
  • Data Structuring and enhancement - Markup/text encoding - descriptive - conceptual
  • Data Structuring and enhancement - Markup/text encoding - descriptive - document structure
  • Data Structuring and enhancement - Markup/text encoding - descriptive - linguistic structure
  • Data Structuring and enhancement - Markup/text encoding - descriptive - nominal
  • Data Structuring and enhancement - Markup/text encoding - presentational
  • Data Structuring and enhancement - Markup/text encoding - referential