Stop lists in AntConc 3.4.0w

[SOSO KH]

Dear Dr Anthony, 

I am trying to identify technical vocabularies in my small corpus by filtering out words appeared in other two lists (one for general English and one for academic English). 

I tried to use these wordlist as stop lists but the process really takes time to generate a wordlist without the words appearing the comparison corpora. 

Am I using the right tool? Or is there something like 'match list' on wordsmith software in AntConc? Also, is there any online tutorial regarding this feature? 

I look forward to hearing from you and sorry of my explanation vague. 

Kind regards,

Sahar 

[Warren Tang]

Hi Sahar,

You are doing the right thing but you will need to select "Use specific words below" or "Use a stoplist below" in the "Tools Preference > Word List". 

I hope that is what you are looking for?

Warren

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[Laurence Anthony]

Hi Sahar,

Warren (as always) has some good advice. The other technique is to use keywords, comparing your target corpus with a corpus of general English. Keywords are words that are *unusually* frequent in your corpus. Usually this means that they are discipline specific in some way.

Laurence.

[SOSO KH]

Hi Warren, 

Thanks a lot for your reply. That was very useful. 

On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 5:50:25 AM UTC, Warren Tang wrote:

Hi Sahar,

You are doing the right thing but you will need to select "Use specific words below" or "Use a stoplist below" in the "Tools Preference > Word List". 

I hope that is what you are looking for?

Warren

On Tuesday, January 28, 2014, SOSO KH <sa7oo...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Dr Anthony, 

I am trying to identify technical vocabularies in my small corpus by filtering out words appeared in other two lists (one for general English and one for academic English). 

I tried to use these wordlist as stop lists but the process really takes time to generate a wordlist without the words appearing the comparison corpora. 

Am I using the right tool? Or is there something like 'match list' on wordsmith software in AntConc? Also, is there any online tutorial regarding this feature? 

I look forward to hearing from you and sorry of my explanation vague. 

Kind regards,

Sahar 

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[SOSO KH]

Hi Laurence, 

Thank you very much, I now understand what 'keywords'! Thanks a lot :) 

Regards

Sahar

On Wednesday, January 29, 2014 5:56:19 AM UTC, Laurence Anthony wrote:

Hi Sahar,

Warren (as always) has some good advice. The other technique is to use keywords, comparing your target corpus with a corpus of general English. Keywords are words that are *unusually* frequent in your corpus. Usually this means that they are discipline specific in some way.

Laurence.

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Warren Tang <theor...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Sahar,

You are doing the right thing but you will need to select "Use specific words below" or "Use a stoplist below" in the "Tools Preference > Word List". 

I hope that is what you are looking for?

Warren

On Tuesday, January 28, 2014, SOSO KH <sa7oo...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Dr Anthony, 

I am trying to identify technical vocabularies in my small corpus by filtering out words appeared in other two lists (one for general English and one for academic English). 

I tried to use these wordlist as stop lists but the process really takes time to generate a wordlist without the words appearing the comparison corpora. 

Am I using the right tool? Or is there something like 'match list' on wordsmith software in AntConc? Also, is there any online tutorial regarding this feature? 

I look forward to hearing from you and sorry of my explanation vague. 

Kind regards,

Sahar 

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