WORDLIST
is useful to check how HAMLET Joint Frequencies and other routines
will read the contents of a file and help to avoid errors in
later analysis. It displays a sorted list of words identified in
a file of text. Note that any character-string containing letters
and numerals may be considered as a "word" for this purpose. The results may be saved
for comparison with other lists in the same format using the
companion program COMPARE. A series of
texts may also be directly compared according to their vocabulary usage
- A suitable stoplist
may optionally be employed, to ignore
commonly occuring words which are unlikely to be of
significance in determining the main content of a
file. Stoplists can be selected and edited
from the corresponding menu item. Alternatively, use the full
vocabulary list editor to maintain
your stoplists in detail.
- If the text to be read is in a language other than English,
use the pull-down menu to apply the correct lexicographic
conventions.
- Words may be listed in forward alphabetical order or in
descending order of frequency.
- To save time, counting may be limited by initial letters,
or by the size of the words to be counted.