Corpora: Keywords in texts

[Gordon and Pam Cain]

Dear all--

Sorry for the delay in this reply, but hope this is of help:

See of course:
Scott, M 1998, WordSmith Tools Manual, version 3.0, Mike Scott and
Oxford University Press. Available from
http://www/liv.ac.uk/~ms2928/wordsmit.htm.


Also a helpful example:
Scott, M 1997, ‘PC analysis of key words – and key key words', System,
vol 25, no 2, 233-245.

And available on the WWW:
Tribble, C 1998?, ‘Genres, keywords, teaching: towards a pedagogic
account of the language of project proposals'. Available at
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Christopher_Tribble/Genre.htm


Also quite interesting if you can track it down, but not really on key
words per se:

Hoey, M 1997, ‘From concordance to text structure: New uses for computer
corpora', in Melia J, and Lewandowska B (eds), Proceedings of PALC 97,
Lodz University Press.

Alejandro Curado Fuentes wrote:
>
> I believe Mike himself has worked on this for some time (e.g.
> PALC Conference 1999), dealing with Key Key words.
>
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, luz estela villarreal munoz wrote:
>
> >
> > Dear All,
> > I am working on keyword distribution in newspaper articles
> > using Scott's Wordsmith Tools. Has anybody worked on
> > anything similar to this?
> > ----------------------
> > lusaki at liverpool.ac.uk
> >
> >

--
Gordon Cain
Teacher of ESOL
Coverdale International English College
Riverstone (Sydney) Australia
gpcain at rivernet.com.au