Corpus Term Frequencies

 Corpus Term Frequencies shows overall word frequencies for the entire corpus as well as information about how word frequencies are spread out over documents within the corpus. Hover over column headers and buttons for more information.

Getting Started

When you first arrive to the Corpus Term Frequencies tool you will see one of two possible screens:

Corpus Term Frequencies without a pre-loaded corpus. See loading texts into Voyeur for help on how to proceed.

Corpus Term Frequencies with a pre-loaded corpus. You were probably given a URLA URL (Uniform Resource Locator), sometimes called a web address, is used to locate and identify web content. For more information, see the Wikipedia. Return to Glossary. that included the corpus, or you're viewing a page that has an embedded Voyeur tool in it. If you prefer, you can also start without a corpus.

Interface Elements

Corpus Term Frequencies includes the standard set of interface elements (see image to the right). For more help with these see the Voyeur Tools Standard Interface Elements page.

Standard UI Elements

On the left you will see the most frequent terms highlighted in yellow, and in the other columns. In the columns on the right you will see how many times the word appears in the document(s), and a miniature graph showing its trend within the document(s).

Overview of Corpus Term Frequencies

At the bottom, the traditional Voyeur favourite buttons and search can be found. Click on the boxes next to any terms and click on the Favourite button to add them to your favourite terms.

Voyeur favourite buttons

Double-click on any word within the corpus to access the Document Term Frequencies tool.

Exporting

Like all Voyeur tools, Corpus Term Frequencies can be reused in a variety of ways:

  • create a link that is specific to the corpus and options that are currently being used
  • embed the current corpus and options as a tool in an external page

For more information see exporting and reusing Voyeur Tools.