Text Visualisation (the Explore Window)

The Explore Window offers several alternatives for visualising patterns in text or corpora.

Source of Data

At the top of the pane, there should be three widgets:

Aspect of Interest

Select from the list of various aspects you can visualise:
  1. Lexical patterns:
  2. Feature Patterns: with this option selected you will be asked to select a unit of interest (e.g., "clause" to see how frequent or key the features below "clause" are in the designated corpus you are visualisating.

Visualisation modes

You can choose from various visualisations. Not all visualisations are available for all data aspects.

Reference Corpora

When you select "Keywords" or "Key Features", the keyness (specialness to the designated corpus) needs to be derived by comparing counts in the designated corpus to some reference corpus. Currently three options are provided: