Experiment with Text Encoding Software
- Diana Hemaidan
- Nov 16, 2015
- 1 min read
I am conducting an experiment with two encoding tools called Lexos and Voyant.
According to DiRT (Digital Resource Tool), the Basic functions of each tool are as follow...
Lexos is an online tool that enables you to "scrub" (clean) your text(s), cut a text(s) into various size chunks, manage chunks and chunk sets, and choose from a suite of analysis tools for investigating those texts. Functionality includes building dendrograms, making graphs of rolling averages of word frequencies or ratios of words or letters, and playing with visualizations of word frequencies including word clouds and bubble visualizations.
Website: http://lexos.wheatoncollege.edu/
Voyant is a web-based text analysis environment where users can apply a wide variety of tools to any text they import. It can visualize a text or a small corpus with text clouds, and come with a variety of plug-ins to trace word connections.
Website: http://voyant-tools.org
Please check out my results in the My Findings tab :)
Update: Nov 16, 2015
After experimenting with Lexos and Voyant, I feel that Voyant is a bit more user friendly and would be a better tool to conduct the following research. Therefor i will be using Voyant to further gather my studies.
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