Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland) · 2006 · 118 citations · 8 references
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Language StudiesComputer ScienceEducational TechnologyComputational LinguisticsNatural Language ProcessingSyntaxAnnotationSyntactic AnalysisSyntactic AnnotationText MiningText RepresentationTextual AnalysisText Annotation
The paper introduces QQ+Concordance, a software–hardware package that integrates common word processors or text editors with free concordancing tools for text annotation and analysis. The system employs inline tags inserted into the text to mark formal, pragmatic, syntactic, semantic, stylistic, contextual, and other features, and uses KWIC analyses to examine tag co‑occurrences and patterns. The tool offers a practical learning framework that enables students to develop, refine, and analyze tags, thereby gaining hands‑on experience with text analysis and building arguments about text content and implications.
This paper presents a software+hardware package for the annotation and analysis of texts, using a combination of common word-processors or text editors and free concordancing software. This package, called QQ+Concordance, uses in-line tags--tags which are inserted in the linear stream of text--to capture formal, pragmatic, syntactic, semantic, stylistic, contextual and other aspects of texts. The KWIC analyses (key word in context) of QQ- tags support analyses of co-occurrences and patterns of tags with tags, tags with text, and text with text. QQ+Concordance provides a viable learning framework for students of language. The process of developing, refining and analyzing tags and their patterns, allows students of text analysis to familiarize themselves with the processes of analysis in a nuts-and-bolts way, and to use the output to construct arguments and theories about the content and implications of the components of texts.
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