TXM software methodological background and history.

1. TXM background
Serge Heiden
(ICAR Laboratory, France)
textometrie@ens-lyon.fr
TXM workshop, DARIAH-DE 2014, Würzburg

2. Lexicometry methodology 1980
Raw text word counts (graphical word form)
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Contrastive analysis : Factorial CA, AH Classification
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Collocations
Textometry methodology 2003
XML encoded texts
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Tagged texts
TXM platform 2007→ French Research Agency Grant 2007-2010
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XML TEI
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NLP Automatic tagging
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Open-source development model

3. TXM today (1/2)
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Full range of text analysis tools
– Qualitative: Word lists, Kwic
concordances, Text edition reading &
navigation
– Quantitative: FCA, AHC, Collocates,
Specificity
– Corpus configurations: sub-corpus &
partitions building
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Countables based on CQP word pattern full text
search engine
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Statistical models based on R environment

4. TXM today (2/2)
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Large spectrum of input formats
– TXT (Unicode) > XML > TEI (BVH, BFM,
etc.)
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Speech transcriptions (timing, speech
turns, audio/video...)
– Aligned corpora (translation or versioning)
Two end user applications
– TXM RCP - Cross-platform desktop
(Windows, Mac OS X, Linux)
– TXM GWT - Web Portals
User community (French speaking)
Developer community (Lyon, Besançon, Caen)

5. TXM introduction workshop
TXM 0.7.2
(0.7.5 this week)
 Brown corpus
(Kucera & al)
 TreeTagger English model
 Brown TXT and XML sources (import)
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Main concepts & tools
 CQL queries
 XML import
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6. TXM introduction workshop
TXM 0.7.2
(0.7.5 this week)
 Brown corpus
(Kucera & al)
 TreeTagger English model
 Brown TXT and XML sources (import)
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Main concepts & tools
 CQL queries
 XML import
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