How to get Key KeyWords

[Salwa]

Dear all,

I am using WordSmith Tool 4 to get KeyWords and frequencies. I have
already got the KeyWords of my corpus but it is difficult to analsye
the whole number of KeyWords that I got, so I want to get Key Keywords
of my corpus.
As I understood that for Identifying key keywords, it requires making
a set, or "batch", of wordlists.

What I did is:

1. I made a set or "batch" of wordlists,
2. Then, I opened "KeyWords", FILE, NEW, and then "KW DATABASE"

My questions are:

1. How can we save "batch" of wordlists.
2. Should we download "batch" of wordlists into “KW Database” to get
KKWs.

I appreciate any advice you can give!

Salwa

[Mike Scott]

Dear Salwa

Each key-word list (.KWS) needs to be based on a word-list (which it
compares with a much bigger one).
A key word database (.KDB) is a set of key-word lists.
So to make a .KWD you need plenty of .KWS. I think it is not usually
useful unless you have at least 100, and it is better with 500 or
1000.


One way (A) of making plenty of KWS is to do them one by one,
yourself, each time choosing one word-list and the reference corpus
word-list, waiting for the KWS list and saving it on your disk.
Another way (B) starts by making lots of word-lists first, in a batch,
in the WordList program. They can be saved as a whole lot of .LST
files on your disk, or they can be compressed into one big .ZIP file
which contains lots of .LST files, but either way they save themselves
and you don't need to give each one a file-name. Then, in (B) you need
to use the KeyWords program to tell it to make lots of KWS files using
each .LST file. It can make them as separate KWS files or zip them up
into one big .ZIP file.

Whether you use (A) or (B) doesn't matter much. Finally you need to
use the KeyWords program to select all your .KWS files and put them
all together to make a KDB.

I hope that makes things clear -- Mike

[Salwa]

Thank you very much Dr Mike!

I got KKWs of my corpus by following your way (A) that you explained above:

First, I did the KWs for each file one by one (after I got the word-list for each file one by one and compared each file with the reference corpus),

Secondly, I zipped all the KWs files in a ZIP file,

Thirdly, I used the KeyWords Program to select the ZIP file and I put the ZIP file (KWs files) to make a KDB.

But I still have a problem because I still have a lot of KKWs (more than 800 keyWords) and it is difficult to analyse all of these keywords and most of those KKWs are Prepositions, articles,… and some of those KKWs come in more than one form.

My questions:

1.      How to delete the (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, proper names,…) from the list of KeyWords before doing a KDB.

2.      There are some keywords that come in more than one form (e.g. (amount, amounts), (audit, auditors), (company, company’s) and I do not need such several forms for each keyword, so my question is How to make such KeyWords that come in several forms to be only in a ONE FORM and One KeyWord.

Any suggestions very much appreciated.

Salwa

[Mike Scott]

Please read about match-lists and lemmatisation in the Help, Salwa.
With a match-list you should be able to get rid of words you don't
want, lemmatisation joins related forms.

> But I still have a problem because I still have a lot of KKWs (more than
> 800 keyWords) and it is difficult to analyse all of these keywords and most
> of those KKWs are Prepositions, articles,… and some of those KKWs come in
> more than one form.

Mike

[Salwa]

Thank you very much for your quick and valuable advice, Dr. Mike.

I still have a lot of keywords even after using KeyWords database (KDB), so my question is:

1.      Is it possible to create KEY KEYWORDS DATABASE instead of KeyWords Database. If your answer ‘yes’.  How can we create a KKWs DataBase?

Salwa

[Mike Scott]

Sorry, no. A KDB is already a database of key-key-words!

Best -- Mike

[Salwa]

Thank you very much Dr. Mike!

I tried to use Match list to get rid of some words that I do not want them to appear as keywords.

What I did is:

1.      I collected one two hundred and twelve words that I want to delete them from my KDB in a PLAIN TEXT.

2.      I separated each word using commas and I put each word in a separate line. Then, I selected MATCH LIST in the menu to specify this Match List AND I clicked OK.

But when I started the process for getting KDB, I found those words are not deleted. I tried many time, but I found that words are not deleted.

I hope to get any help!

Salwa

 

 

 

[Salwa]