Short guide to LEXICON
The software provides statistical analysis of the lexical tokens of one or more texts and compares
their characteristics, in particular the overlap ratio of the lexical forms between two or more texts.
It works in two stages: input of the texts and setting of the tools, and performance of the analysis.
1. Input of texts and setting of the tools
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Get the texts to examine in .txt format
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If wished, group the texts in corpora
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When needed, create word lists to exclude from the analysis
1.1 Get the texts
The texts to be analysed must be trasnferred from your PC to the Lexicon archive,
where they remain until they will be removed.
The function
TEXTS gives a title to every text, changes the name of the file and checks
its content (also for eliminating undesidered signs or spaces).
1.2. How to create corpora
The function
CORPORA groups more texts in a set which can be submitted to the analysis
as well as every single text can be. Once the
corpus has been created, every text included
in the archive can be added or eliminated from it.
1.3 Through the function 3 you can select a list of words which will not be analysed.
Grammatical tables can be created and saved by selecting and including the relevant words.
2. To perform the analysis
The software gives automatically the number of tokens and types of every text.
Special functions as
FREQUENCIES,
COLLOCATES,
and
COMPARISON of the
ANALISIS Menu can operate on the materials which
have been previously arranged as explained at point 1.
The results are presented in table format, and their order can be changed
just clicking on the header of the columns:
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The blue header
means that the column can be sorted in other way (AZ or ZA).
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The red header means that the table is sorted:
a click will reverse the order.
- The black header means that the column
cannot be sorted.
In creating the frequency tables, one can select a fixed number of words to analyse or a lexical key (a root of words where * represents
whatever number of cahrs, and ? a single character).
You can also create a table of sequences frequency, called phrases, that is the frequency of words series which occur more times,
just selecting the number of words which should build the expected series.
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N.B. We recommend to use always the internal buttons, avoiding the browser buttons.
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The software has been tested on the browsers represented here.
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