Hermeneuti.ca – The Rhetoric of Text Analysis

We've updated the current version of Voyeur with a maintenance release that includes a fix to a bug that prevented users from doing phrase searches (actually, the search worked the first time, but not subsequent times).

To do a phrase search, simply type in the phrase into the search box (with no quotes). This will search for the exact sequence of types (currently lower case word forms). No proximity search is currently supported (with words in between), though some simple regular expressions can be used:

• i love (exact sequence)
• i love.* (other characters can follow after love, e.g. "i loved")
• i .*?ve\b (any character can precede "ve" at the end of the word, e.g. "i live")

I cleaned up most of the embedded tools in Now Analyze That, including a call to the distribution chart in Voyeur. The last step will be to see if the new Voyeur Links tool can be inserted in the place of the visual collocator, though we may want to keep a static image there to show a certain layout of the words tha couldn't be achieved with a single call.

There's now a stub page for the Recipes – now I have to start filling them in...

We've moved the domain to a TAPoR server at McMaster to get better performance than the shared commercial server where it was hosted before. This will also make it easier for us to host Voyeur tools at voyeur.hermeneuti.ca (though the tools aren't yet available).