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Document Term Frequencies

Tue, 11/23/2010 - 15:50 — CoreySlavnik
 Document Term Frequencies shows word frequencies for each document in the corpus. You can see the selected word at the top of the window highlighted in yellow. Its relevance to the documents is shown in the table below. Hover over the column headers or toolbar buttons for more information.

Getting Started

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

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

Document 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

Document 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

Document Term Frequencies requires not only input, but a specified term to perform the analysis. For example, in the image below, we see the analysis looking at all of the documents in relation to the word 'thou'. The document with the highest count is shown at the top, and so forth. We also have the documents' relativity in the columns in the right.

Document Term Frequencies overview

Document Term Frequencies is commonly accessed from other tools by clicking on individual terms. For example, if using the tool Cirrus, clicking on one of the words will bring you to a Document Term Frequencies analysis.

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.

Favourite buttons

Exporting

Like all Voyeur tools, Document 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.