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This program generates word lists based on one or more plain text files. The word lists are automatically generated in both alphabetical and frequency order, and optionally you can generate a word index list too.
The point of it…
These can be used
| 1 | simply in order to study the type of vocabulary used; |
| 2 | to identify common word clusters; |
| 3 | to compare the frequency of a word in different text files or across genres; |
| 4 | to compare the frequencies of cognate words or translation equivalents between different languages; |
| 5 | to get a concordance of one or more of the words in your list. |
Within WordList you can compare two lists, or carry out consistency analysis (simple or detailed) for stylistic comparison purposes.
These word-lists may also be used as input to the KeyWords program, which analyses the words in a given text and compares frequencies with a reference corpus, in order to generate lists of "key-words" and "key-key-words".
Word lists don't have to be of single words, they can be of clusters.
See also: WordList display
