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Martin Volk WordSmith Tools‘ KeyWords 梁茂成 frank@ What are keywords? Positive and negative keywords Using KeyWords analysis in...... How? Keyness and p value Practice What are keywords? A keyword is a word whose relative frequency in an observed corpus is unusually higher or lower than that in a reference corpus. Positive and negative keywords Positive keywords are words which are unusually more frequent than they are in a reference corpus. In legal documents, for example, words like act, article, penalty, delinquency, etc. are much more frequent than they are in a general corpus. Positive and negative keywords In a corpus of texts written by corpus linguists, words like type, token, corpus, frequency, concordance, etc. would be much more frequent than they are in a general corpus. In medical texts…… In zoological texts…… Positive and negative keywords Negative keywords are words which are much less frequent than they are in a reference corpus. Often used to determined which words are underused. Using KeyWords analysis In lexicography…… In content analysis and text classification In SLA…… How? In order to make a KeyWords analysis with Wordsmith Tools, two wordlists are needed. Wordlists show the frequency profiles of words in a corpus. Keyness and p value Keyness and p value indicate the extent to which a word in an observed corpus is more or less frequent than it is in a general corpus. Now, is “the” overused or underused in Chinese EFL learners’ texts? Which other words are underused in Chinese EFL learners’ texts? 100100 thanks! Example observation: first-language acquisition (cursory observation) experimental observation: e.g. eye movement tests