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What's that thing called where you get a list of all the words used in a text and their frequency? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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The closest thing I can find is concordance but it seems like its only really used for Bible stuff or WordClouds

word frequency
eliminating words below frequency cutoffs
concordance
exportable

DevonThink sorta does it

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 31 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

A graph representing the frequency of something is called a histogram. That might be the word you are looking for?

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 14 points 4 weeks ago

Also maybe a word cloud.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago

Word cloud?

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

You looking for word frequently count?

[–] Trent@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 weeks ago

I've always just seen it called a frequency table.

[–] airbussy@lemmy.one 5 points 4 weeks ago

Shot in the dark but maybe you're thinking of word2vec?

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

My wife studied linguistics, is the term you are looking for "corpus linguistics"?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago

This? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf

[–] shartworx@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 weeks ago

My Shakespeare teacher in college called it a concordance when we studied Macbeth. There was a full concordance and then concordances for each speaking part. Pretty fascinating stuff.

[–] joshcodes@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago

Frequency analysis? Tokenisation? Not sure if either of those are what you mean

[–] JonnyRobbie@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

sometimes it's called bag of words

[–] ThePantser@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Word Trends is what this software called them. I always wondered how they know how many times fuck is used in a book, I had hoped they didn't have to count. https://www.maxqda.com/help-mx22/visual-tools/word-trends-analyze-frequencies-of-words-within-a-text