• keyword

    (Not to be confused with terms which is a related concept.) Keywords is a concept used in connection with Keyword & Term extraction. Keywords are words (single-token items), that appear more frequently in the focus corpus than in the reference corpus. They are used to identify what is specific to a corpus (focus corpus) or its subcorpus in comparison with another corpus (reference corpus) or its subcorpus. It is recommended to use terms, not keywords, for the purpose of terminology extraction. (more…)
  • KWIC

    KWIC is the acronym for Key Word in Context and refers to the red text highlighted in a concordance. The red text is the result that matches the search criteria. Such a concordance is referred to as a KWIC concordance. (more…)