Session 5

Author

Masaki EGUCHI, Ph.D.

Modified

August 3, 2025

One-liner

You will learn how to create frequency-lists for English and Japanese.

🎯 Learning Objectives

By the end of this session, you will be able to:

  • Compute frequency of a single-word lexical item in reference corpora
  • Derive vocabulary frequency list using concordancing software (e.g., AntConc)
  • Apply tokenization on the Japanese language corpus for frequency analysis
  • Conduct Lexical Profiling using a web-application or desktop application (e.g., AntWordProfiler)

🔑 Key Concepts

  • Lexical profiling
  • Frequency Lists
  • Zipf’s law
  • Lexical coverage

🛠️ Tools Used

Materials

Slides for the session

Reflection


Hands-on activity

Frequency list

Lexical Profiling

Keyness Analysis