[Corpora-List] Parallel Word Lists

[Alexander Schutz]

Hi David,

with these restrictions, the combined power of two tools come to mind.
Actually it's three:
1) pen
2) paper
3) the human brain (could be your own, or one of your students)

Tool no. 3) has hidden requirements such that reading, writing, and  
counting must be supported.

Give me a shout if you are willing to lower your requirements, I might  
have a couple of computer programs flying around...

Kind regards,
Alex

(sorry)


On 19 Oct 2009, at 16:22, David L. Hoover wrote:

> I often need what I'll call a parallel word list, which is a  
> combined word frequency list for a corpus of texts along with an  
> entry for the frequency of each word in each text, including zero  
> frequencies, like this (the entries are in descending frequency  
> order for the entire corpus):
>
>
> 	Text 1 	Text 2 	Text 3
> the 	0.0610 	0.0428 	0.0551
> and 	0.0387 	0.0294 	0.0249
> to 	0.0265 	0.0287 	0.0272
> of 	0.0252 	0.0291 	0.0326
> a 	0.0239 	0.0238 	0.0207
> city 	0.0000 	0.0015 	0.0002
>
>
> I have my own methods of doing this, and I know that WordSmith Tools  
> will produce such a list using the "Detailed Consistency List"  
> function, with View Column Totals, but I wonder if there are  
> especially good publicly available (free) methods out there that I  
> just haven't found.
>
> Also, to be clear, I'm looking for a simple tool for users without  
> any programming experience, so no Perl scripts, no UNIX, etc.
>
> Thanks,
> David Hoover
>
> -- 
>         David L. Hoover, Professor of English, NYU
>      212-998-8832       http://homepages.nyu.edu/~dh3/
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