The Influence of Reference Corpus Size on Wordsmith Tools Keywords Extraction

A KeyWords analysis (using WordSmith Tools) enables the discovery of lexical items which reveal the main lexical sets in a text or corpus. Such an analysis requires that a reference corpus be compared to the corpus the researcher intends to describe (the study corpus). This paper presents a mathemat...

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Main Author: Tony Berber Sardinha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo 2012-05-01
Series:The ESPecialist: Research in Language for Specific Purposes
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Online Access:https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/esp/article/view/9290