Keyword (linguistics)
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In corpus linguistics a keyword is a word which occurs in a text more often than we would expect to occur by chance alone. Keywords are calculated by carrying out a statistical test (e.g. loglinear) which compares the word frequencies in a text against their expected frequencies derived in a much larger corpus, which acts as a reference for general language use. AntConc is a freely available text analysis tool capable of calculating keywords.
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- Online tool which calculate word frequencies - unfrequented word frequency calculator
- Filtered word frequencies - for English language. Different vocabulary lists provided.
