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| audiolang Diglot Senior Member Romania Joined 6317 days ago 108 posts - 109 votes  2 sounds Speaks: Romanian*, English | Message 1 of 8 30 September 2007 at 3:56am | IP Logged | ||
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I am curious to know if there exists a software which allows numbering the words in a text and arranging them in an alphabetic order.I had to do this as an homework once ,but the product had too many limitations.
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6700 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 8 01 October 2007 at 4:40am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't know such a piece of software - at least not if you want to get something like a dictionary for a particular book or article. You need a grammatical module if you want to lump all the different forms of a certain word together, and then you still have the problem of separating homonyms, especially if they belong to the same word class. To get a simple list of all word forms is however a simple task. There are a few pitfall, but the general procedure would be as follows:
1) get the text into a decent word processor 2) block the word division 3) convert comma, period and other signs followed by a space to just the space 4) convert period and other signs followed by a new line to just a space 5) now convert all spaces to new line 6) move the whole bunch into a spreadsheet 6a) if there are too many words you have to do the 'unique thing' to one section at a time, then combine the resulting lists 7) make a unique list (i Excel through Data, Filter, Advanced filter, only uniques) 8) sort it alphabetically .. and the rest has to be done manually 9) lump different forms of the same word together by removing all forms but one Edited by Iversen on 01 October 2007 at 4:40am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6672 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English | Message 3 of 8 01 October 2007 at 7:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Maybe something like this?
http://www.wordcounter.com/ http://www.hermetic.ch/wfc/wfc.htm Edited by slucido on 01 October 2007 at 7:12am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| xtremelingo Trilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6284 days ago 398 posts - 515 votes Speaks: English*, Hindi*, Punjabi* Studies: German, French, Arabic (Written) | Message 4 of 8 03 October 2007 at 7:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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Honestly Slucido has the BEST internet/software resources! Almost every link you have posted here has always been very impressive!
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| TreoPaul Senior Member United States Joined 6327 days ago 121 posts - 118 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 5 of 8 13 October 2007 at 4:44pm | IP Logged | ||
A similar program is TextStat available at http://www.niederlandistik.fu-berlin.de/textstat/software-en .html Edited by TreoPaul on 13 October 2007 at 4:47pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| justinwilliams Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6686 days ago 321 posts - 327 votes 3 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Italian | Message 6 of 8 14 October 2007 at 6:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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I just finished a programming assignement for school in which we had to implement something that would calculate the average word length of a text as well as the length standard deviation. But it's only in Java so it's not really versatile...Hope to get a perfect grade though!
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| Eve Triglot Groupie United States Joined 6672 days ago 67 posts - 67 votes Speaks: Russian*, English, Spanish | Message 7 of 8 28 October 2007 at 5:14am | IP Logged | ||
This is pretty good free software! I've just downloaded it and it took less then 10sec to create freq.list from 210p book. Also you can select how to sort words - by freq and/or alpha, etc. Thanks a lot! Edited by Eve on 28 October 2007 at 5:21am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| TreoPaul Senior Member United States Joined 6327 days ago 121 posts - 118 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 8 of 8 28 October 2007 at 8:08am | IP Logged | ||
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Eve, I am glad you like it. I knew if I looked long and hard enough I'd find something that could do the job well and without an enormous price tag. For some reason it is not very well known, but I find it perfect for my needs.
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