This lecture teaches about the use of WordSmith tools and their features for the analysis of lexical features.

1. WordSmith
Tools
Dr Zafar Ullah
zafarullah76@gmail.com
Digital Humanities 01. Code. 0066
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2. WordSmith Tools
• A software package for corpus linguists
• Useful for several languages
• It was based on MicroConcord co-
developed by Mike Scott and Tim
Johns.
• OUP
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3. Download WordSmith Tools
https://www.lexically.net/wordsmith/downloads/
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4. Prepare Input of Datasets
• Plaintext (right click, New, Text
Document)
• Online File Converter
• https://www.online-convert.com/
• Document converter (2nd column, 1st)
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5. WordSmith Features
• Concord
• ... for finding all instances of a word or
phrase.
• KeyWords
• ... helps find salient words in a text or set of
texts.
• WordList
• ... lists the words in your text(s) in alphabetical
and frequency order.
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6. Cont…
• Collocations and lemmas
• Letter count
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7. Green Icons and Their Meanings
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16. Research Question
i. What patterns of lexical features are employed
in literature review in PhD theses?
Lexical Features:
whole word, prefix/suffix, stemmed word, lemmatized word.
Shape Features:
uppercase, title case, lowercase.
Grammatical and Syntactic Features:
POS, part of a noun-phrase, head of a verb phrase, complement
of a prepositional phrase
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17. Main Controller
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18. Concordance
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19. Wordlist Tools (Alphabetical)
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20. Frequency of Wordlist (Number sequence)
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21. Key Words
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22. SiriusData
Training: Linguistics, Academia, TEFL,
Technology, Research etc
Tutoring: Linguistics, Literature, IELTS, English
for All classes and all levels
Editing: proofreading
Translation: English, Urdu
Contact:
Whatsapp: 0092-3468620004
Email: zafarullah76@gmail.com
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