KWIC: Summary Tables

Selecting the ‘Summary Table’ button in the KWIC tool will allow users to view a table with an overview of key linguistic and metalinguistic information based on the user’s search criteria. This tool summarises information displayed in concordance lines and allows users to view an overview of linguistic patterns.

1) Linguistic Summaries

When selecting the node, left context, and right context, the table will provide linguistic summaries of the language data in your corpus. These summaries include the following information: i) Hits (absolute frequency), ii) number of texts, in which the linguistic feature occurs, and iii) break-down according to any other available linguistic annotation such as pos-tags, semantic tags (usas), headwords (hw) etc. representing the linguistic feature in focus. When examining data from the left or right context, the table will display results from L1 or R1 respectively by default. To include data from other positions, tick the required boxes above the summary table.

For example, the table above shows that at the L1 position in the concordance table the most frequent word is the, followed by this, first, same…

The occurs with the absolute frequency of 26,991 at the L1 position in 3,892 different texts.  In this position, the is tagged as two pos-tags AT and RT42 and 9 different semantic usas tags. The details about the tags and their frequencies can be viewed by hovering the mouse over a cell in the linguistic annotation columns.

2) Meta-data Summaries

When selecting any other category from the drop down menu, a meta-data summary will be displayed. These tables show a break-down of the data based on the selected category. The following information is included in the table: i) size of the component, ii) hits (absolute frequency) in the component, iii) relative frequency in the component, and iv) number of texts in which the linguistic feature occurs in the component out of all texts in the component.

Summary tables can be copied & pasted or saved by clicking the three dots in the top right corner of the page () and selecting ‘Save’. Saving will include also a break-down of individual tags in linguistic summaries.