Joining clusters (Lemmas)

The idea is to group clusters like

 

I DON'T THINK

NO I DON'T THINK

I DON'T THINK SO

I DON'T THINK THAT

etc.

You can join them up in a process like lemmatisation, either so that the smaller clusters get merged as 'lemmas' of a bigger one, or so that the smaller ones end up as 'lemmas'.

 

In this screenshot, shorter clusters have been merged with longer ones so that A BEARING OF FORTY-FIVE DEGREES relates to several related clusters:

a bearing of forty-five degrees

visible by double-clicking the lemmas to show something like this:

a bearing of forms

 

How to do it

Choose Edit | Join | Join Clusters in the WordList menu. The process takes quite a time because each cluster has to be compared with all those in the rest of the list; interrupt it if necessary by pressing Suspend.

 

 

 

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