Resolving Singular and Plural Word Variations in KH Coder with FreeLing

[florycst123]

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khcoder3- mac version semi-manual installer 301-macdl 17.34.34

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I am using KH Coder to process Spanish data, and I am utilizing FreeLing. In the correspondence analysis results, both the singular and plural forms of the same word appear in the visualization chart. How can I handle this issue?

What language of text are you trying to analyze?
ex. spanish

[ko-ichi-h]

On the correspondence analysis plot, click the singular form & the plural form to open KWIC.

Then see KWIC and try finding out why they are extracted as different word ("singular" & "plural").

Also, check the "frequency list" to see if the plurals are recognised, and click on each form to see its KWIC and look for clues.

That's all I can suggest at the moment.

[ko-ichi-h]

If necessary, you can edit word extraction result manually using [Tools] [Plugin] [Reload Morphological Analysis Results] command.

[Tools] [Plugin] [Reload Morphological Analysis Results]

To customize how words are extracted in KH Coder, it may be sufficient to specify strings to be extracted forcibly as single words using the [force pick up] field (see section A.4.3) or to edit the dictionaries used in ChaSen, MeCab, or other POS taggers. However, you may prefer changing the word extraction results more flexibly. In such cases, you may choose to modify the result file manually and to execute this command. The path of the result file to be modified is displayed on the console screen as follows when the preprocessing is executed.

Morpho File: C:\hogehoge\khc3 ch.txt

Executing this command achieves almost the same results as [Run Pre-Processing] (see section A.4.2). The only difference is that this command does not perform morphological analysis with ChaSen, MeCab or the POS tagger. The command exports a manually modified morphological analysis results to a MySQL database and prepares the data. Therefore, all the subsequent processes (searching, coding, statistical analysis, etc.) are carried out on the modified data.

We strongly recommend creating backup files frequently when you modify word extraction results, because the original result file is overwritten without warning, whenever the [Run Pre-Processing] command is executed. If this happens before creating a backup file, manually modified data will be lost, when it is overwritten by the latest results of a morphological analysis performed by ChaSen, MeCab or the POS tagger. Therefore, we strongly advise the user to create a backup file by copying the original result file, immediately after making any modifications manually.

[florycst123]

Thank you for your help. I've checked the word frequency list and resolved the issue manually