Textanz analyzes the text loaded from any source, and calculates frequencies of words, phrases or wordforms.
This information allows to detect excessive use of words and constructions in text. Such a stylistic control is not less important, than become already the standard spell checking function. Especially advisable is to check business documentation. The first impression that reader gets from your commercial offer, project, resume, contract, report , etc. in many respects depends on writing style. It is also useful to analyze frequencies in your informal writing, generally in any text which you assume to give someone for perusal. When you are in a role of reader, Textanz will help again. Most often used phrases will prompt, what idea was main for the author at the moment of writing, and probably reveal implicit psychological aspects. Word frequency list is a part of so-called stylistic portrait of the writer. In linguistics research, this is often used for identification of authorship (something similar to handwriting). Developers and a web-master also can find advantage in Textanz , when choosing keywords for web-page or search for repeatable fragments of program source code. Textanz explores phrases irrespective of punctuation signs and quantities of blanks. At such approach, identical sequences of words are regarded as identical phrases, despite of line feed characters or various placement of commas. At the same time, user can configure phrase terminating characters (by default a period, interrogative and an exclamation mark). Having finished scanning of the text, Textanz represents results as a list, sorted by quantity of words in a phrase and by frequency. User can change this sort order to any convenient one. Numerous options allows to tune the calculation process and filter result list. Yet another capability of the program is processing of word forms, having roots of the specified length. See also: text, repetitions, frequency, word, phrase, lexical, analysis, statistics, keywords
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