Презентация на тему "How to Count the Word Frequency in Politician’s Speech"

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  How to Count the Word Frequency in Politician’s Speech?
  K. Arefyeva TAL-2010
  

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  Why do we need this?
  Counting the word frequency can help us to create a “communicative portrait” of the politician.
  We can characterize a relevant lexicon (it reflects the person’s most frequent lexis), which is important in analyzing the speech.
  Politicians are likely to use special language, so it will help us to single out some key words.
  

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  Steps
  Collect the material.
  Download the program for counting the word frequency.
  Count the word frequency using the program.
  Find the most frequent words connected with politics.
  Make your conclusion.
  

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  Collect the material
  Select one particular politician.
  Find his own texts (or scripts) and copy them on your computer.
  REMEMBER! You need at least 100 texts.
  

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  Download the program for counting the word frequency
  Find a special program (use Internet) which will count the word frequency in long texts.
  Download the program on your computer.
  Recommendation: use Wordstat
  

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  Count the word frequency using the program
  

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  3.1
  How the program works
  Set the parameters of output.
  Choose your file with texts. REMEMBER! Your file must be in .txt format.
  Give a name to the output file (it also must be in .txt format)
  

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  Find the most frequent words connected with politics
  Program will give you an output with words and its frequency.
  Singe out the words connected with politics.
  For example: россия, российский, политический, народ, граждане, система, социальный, выборы etc.
  

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  Make your conclusion
  Now you have a list of words. These words are frequent for the particular politician you’ve chosen at the beginning.
  You can analyze the speech of this politician using this method and you can singe out some words which are typical for politician’s speech.
  

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  Thank you!