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Word frequency and keyword extraction: Papers and audio files

These resources may be read online or downloaded in PDF format and the presentations and discussion sessions may be listened to as audio files or podcasts. (For more information about podcasts, and a list of those available, see What is podcasting?)

Printable Audio
(pdf) (mp3) 'Word Frequency: Use or Misuse', John Kirk, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland.
(pdf) (mp3) 'Word Frequency, Statistical Stylistics, and Authorship Attribution', David Hoover, New York University, USA.
(pdf) (mp3) 'Alternative Architectures to Examine Related Words, Register Variation, and Historical Change', Mark Davies, Brigham Young University, USA.
(pdf) (mp3) 'Issues for Historical Corpora: First Catch Your Word', Christian Kay, University of Glasgow, Scotland.
(pdf) (mp3) 'In Search of a Bad Reference Corpus', Mike Scott, University of Liverpool, UK.
(pdf) (mp3) 'Keywords and Moral Panics: Mary Whitehouse and Media Censorship', Tony McEnery, University of Lancaster, UK.
(pdf) (mp3) '"The question is, how cruel is it?" Keywords in Debates on Fox Hunting in the British House of Commons', Paul Baker, University of Lancaster, UK.
(pdf) (mp3) 'Love - a familiar or a devil? An Exploration of Key Domains in Shakespeare's Comedies and Tragedies', Dawn Archer, University of Central Lancashire, UK.

AHDS Methods Taxonomy Terms

This item has been catalogued using a discipline and methods taxonomy. Learn more here.

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