Hermeneuti.ca – The Rhetoric of Text Analysis

Links finds collocates for words and displays links between them using a force directed graph. It shows term frequencies in proximity to keyword. It is a visualization and shows a web of terms.

Getting Started Interface Elements Exporting

Getting Started

When you first arrive to the Links tool you will see one of two possible screens:

Links without a pre-loaded corpus. See loading texts into Voyeur for help on how to proceed.

Links with a pre-loaded corpus. You were probably given a URLA URL (Uniform Resource Locator), sometimes called a web address, is used to locate and identify web content. For more information, see the Wikipedia. Return to Glossary. that included the corpus, or you're viewing a page that has an embedded Voyeur tool in it. If you prefer, you can also start without a corpus.

Interface Elements

Links includes the standard set of interface elements (see image to the right). For more help with these see the Voyeur Tools Standard Interface Elements page.

When the visualization appears, you will see a list of the included documents within the corpus. They are each associated with a certain colour, and this colour is shown as term links within the visualization. A term's colour is determined by which document it appears in most frequently. You may add a word to the visualization by typing it into the 'Add word' box and hitting return.

If you hover over a term, Voyeur will tell you it's linkage within the corpus documents. You may also drag and drop terms to organize them as you please.

Clicking on the options button (the button that looks like a gear) will launch a dialog box with various options pertaining to the Links tool. Stop words list is if you would like to exclude words from the visualization. (Usually words such as 'a', 'the', and 'and'.) 'NodeA node in a graph is the basic unit of data from which a graph can be constructed. In text analysis using a hypergraph, nodes connect to other nodes. Each node represents a word, and nodes touching where words are found in conjunction with one another in the source text. For more information on nodes, see the Wikipedia. Return to Glossary. size determined by type frequency' is the default, and will result in sorting by how often the term appears in the documents. Sorting by 'NodeA node in a graph is the basic unit of data from which a graph can be constructed. In text analysis using a hypergraph, nodes connect to other nodes. Each node represents a word, and nodes touching where words are found in conjunction with one another in the source text. For more information on nodes, see the Wikipedia. Return to Glossary. links' will result in terms appearing larger if they are heavily linked with other terms. 'Autofit graph on screen' sizes the graph depending on the size of your browser window. 'Remove orphans' will remove terms which are not linked to any other term in the visualization.

If you would like to manipulate the visualization, right-click on any of the terms and choose 'Stick/unstick' or 'Remove'. 'Stick/unstick' puts the term in place, and is not moved when other terms are moved. 'Remove' simply removes the term from the visualization.

Exporting

Like all Voyeur tools, Links can be reused in a variety of ways:

• create a link that is specific to the corpus and options that are currently being used
• embed the current corpus and options as a tool in an external page

For more information see exporting and reusing Voyeur Tools.