Hermetic Word Frequency Counter Advanced Version

Differences from the Basic Version

The follow features of the Advanced Version are not present in the basic version:

• The inclusion of additional characters which may appear within words, namely, ampersands, commas, parentheses and user-specified characters (for more on this see What is a Word?).
• The ability to count words and phrases matching given patterns (e.g. st~, ~c, p?p).
• The ability to ignore words which lack any of several user-specified characters.
• The ability to display words counted in reverse alphabetical order as well as in alphabetical order and by frequency.
• The ability to scan not just one file but all files in a folder, and optionally in all subfolders, and to return a single report on the frequencies of words and phrases in all files scanned.
• The ability to include or to exclude files of certain types (identified by file extension).
• The ability to specify not only a list of words to be ignored (such as common words in a natural language) but also the ability to specify a list of words and phrases which are to be counted (with all words not in this list being ignored).
• In the latter case to show, for each word or phrase found, the files in which it occurs.
• The ability to switch between multiple files containing words to ignore.
• The ability to switch between multiple files containing specified words/phrases to count.
• The ability to generate data which can be used to test whether a corpus of text conforms to Zipf's Law.

Note that the software will count all occurrences of words in one or more files, but phrases to be counted must be specified. Specification of phrases is explained in Counting Phrases.

Both the main screen and the parameters screen differ somewhat from those in the basic version, although all the functions of the basic version are retained. Here is what the parameters screen looks like in the Advanced Version:

See Setting the Operation Parameters (in the user manual for the basic version) for further information.

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