LogosLink User's Manual · LogosLink version 2.0.0

Text Preparation for Analysis

Before you tackle ontology, argumentation or agency analysis of a text, you must prepare the text to make work easier and more reliable.

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The texts that you will analyse may come from a variety of sources. Some may be copied from the Internet, some may be obtained as PDFs or web pages, transcribed from audio sources, or be scanned copies of paper-based documents. Depending on the source, the source text may be in a form that is more or less suitable for analysis. For example, many scanned and OCRed texts contain page numbers or running headers interspersed with the body text. Other texts may contain superfluous information such as figure captions or irrelevant text fragments. Furthermore, lines can be broken and errors may be present, such as mistaken characters. Text preparation entails getting the text in the best possible shape before analysis.

You can prepare a text for analysis by combining manual and automated methods. LogosLink provides some tools to fix common issues with texts before analysis, but in most cases you will want to look at the text manually to revise and adjust the results. Also, some fixes are extremely contextual and need a human eye to be performed.

As a starting point, you can use the automatic Clean Up Text tool that is available from the Document ribbon tab in the Corpus window, or from the Home ribbon for Ontology, Argumentation model and Agency model windows.

Manually, you can edit the text yourself before analysis and fix any extant issues.

Text Preparation for Analysis

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