Switching Reference List to BNC_COCA_25000?

[Terence Patrick Murphy]

Dear Professor Anthony,

This is perhaps a naive question, but I was wondering if it is possible to switch from the current set of 3 reference lists to a subdivided list with substantially more coverage?

I am trying to work with some literary texts in order to quantify literary style or register. The two texts that I am currently interested in are "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" by Ernest Hemingway and "Winter Dreams" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

I have a briefcase containing the BNC_COCA_25000 on my desktop, but I am not sure how to make WordProfiler access it. To be honest, I also cannot find the location on my computer of the current three-way reference list that you are using (1-gsl_1st_1000, 2_gsl_2nd_1000 and 3_awl_570). 

Obviously, I would then need to slice up the BNC_COCA_25000. Ideally, I think a slicing of the corpus into 9 subdivisions would be great. But that might not be possible, of course.

On a related note, it would be amazing if a future version of the AntWordProfiler could graph the distribution of the words, after they have been sorted with a large corpora list like the BNC_COCA. My strong impression is that the graphs would describe a variety of curves that obey Zipf's Law, and allow us to see, for example, that Fitzgerald accesses a much greater range of rarer vocabulary items than Hemingway does.

At any rate, as I slowly become more familiar with AntWordProfiler, I can see we are once again deeply in your debt, Professor. The programs you have set up are a major advance on coding in R or RStudio for a whole range of tasks!

All best wishes,

Terence Murphy

Full Professor of Rhetoric and Composition

Yonsei University

Seoul, KOREA 

[Brian Gallagher]

Dear Terence,

I believe you have contacted the wrong Anthony. I believe you are looking for Laurence?

Good luck with it all.

Regards,

Anthony Brian Gallagher

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[Terence Patrick Murphy]

I believe you are right. I had the oddest sense as soon as I sent it that the original email had gone lost in Webland. At any rate, I am glad that it had miraculously turned up in the right place!

[Laurence Anthony]

Hi Terance,

First, you can get a nicely subdivided version of the  BNC_COCA list here:
https://laurenceanthony.net/software/wordfamilyfinder/

This is the official home of the  BNC_COCA list, including versioning. All the newest official versions of the list (from Paul Nation) will appear here.

You can swap out the inbuilt lists with the BNC_COCA via the file menu in AntWordProfiler. Check the help page if you are not sure how to do this. The inbuilt lists are stored in a resource folder inside the app itself, which is a little difficult to find. 

As for plotting graphs, AntWordProfiler produces nicely formatted tables that can be pasted directly into Excel via copy/paste, which you can then use to plot all the graphs that you want. I suggest you try that first.

I hope this helps!

Laurence.

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[Terence Patrick Murphy]

Hi Laurence,

Thanks very much! This Is very helpful.

All best wishes,

Terry

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