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cheese_greater @lemmy.world

9mo ago

What's that thing called where you get a list of all the words used in a text and their frequency?

The closest thing I can find is concordance but it seems like its only really used for Bible stuff or WordClouds

word frequency
eliminating words below frequency cutoffs
concordance
exportable

DevonThink sorta does it

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A graph representing the frequency of something is called a histogram. That might be the word you are looking for?
- Also maybe a word cloud.
Word cloud?
I've always just seen it called a frequency table.
You looking for word frequently count?
Shot in the dark but maybe you're thinking of word2vec?
My Shakespeare teacher in college called it a concordance when we studied Macbeth. There was a full concordance and then concordances for each speaking part. Pretty fascinating stuff.
My wife studied linguistics, is the term you are looking for "corpus linguistics"?
This? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf
Frequency analysis? Tokenisation? Not sure if either of those are what you mean
sometimes it's called bag of words
Word Trends is what this software called them. I always wondered how they know how many times fuck is used in a book, I had hoped they didn't have to count. https://www.maxqda.com/help-mx22/visual-tools/word-trends-analyze-frequencies-of-words-within-a-text

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