Editing results

Once you have generated a result object via the search command, you can edit the result in a number of ways. You can delete, merge or otherwise alter entries or subcorpora; you can do statistics, and you can sort results.

Editing, calculating and sorting each create a new object, called edited. This means that if you make a mistake, you still have access to the original result object, without needing to run the search again.

The edit command

When using the edit command, the main things you’ll want to do is skip, keep, span or merge results or subcorpora.

> edit result by keeping subcorpora matching '[01234]'
> edit result by skipping entries matching wordlists.closedclass
# merge has a slightly different syntax, because you need
# to specify the name to merge under
> edit result by merging entries matching 'be|have' as 'aux'

Note

The syntax above works for concordance lines too, if you change result to concordance. Merging is not possible.

Doing basic statistics

The calculate command allows you to turn the absolute frequencies into relative frequencies, keyness scores, etc.

> calculate result as percentage of self
> calculate edited as percentage of features.clauses
> calculate result as keyness of self

If you want to run more complicated operations on the results, you might like to use the ipython command to enter an IPython session, and then manipulate the Pandas objects directly.

Sorting results

The sort command allows you to change the search result order.

Possible values are total, name, infreq, increase, decrease, static, turbulent.

> sort result by total
# requires scipy
> sort edited by increase