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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">Could anyone help me with a problem I have encountered with Wordsmith Tools. I am working with a large corpus of more than 7 million words and I want to focus on a large set of technical, sub-technical
and content words without too much noise from function words. I made a stop-list of such words as instructed in the extensive help file where it mentions that Key word, Concord and Wordlist tools can use a stop list. I loaded this .stp file and each time
I tested a small part of my corpus using <em>the</em></font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Tahoma">as a search word I got a full concordance of
<em>the</em> in that small section. My stoplist hadn't worked.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="tahoma">Have I misunderstood the use of stoplist in Concord? Is there something wrong with my stoplist file or my use of the Concord settings?</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="tahoma">Thank you for any help you might give</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="tahoma">All the best for 2011</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="tahoma">John McKenny</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Tahoma">Division of English Studies</font></div>
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