A Computer Interface Supporting Text Analysis: "El Manchador de Textos"

In this paper the computational tool called "El Manchador de Textos" is described and exemplified. This tool helps find and highlight co-occurring linguistic features in digital texts and corpora. These features can be visualized in texts through colors assigned to each of these features. The computational tool also helps quantify co-occurring linguistic features producing an index that represents the density of the text prose. As an example of the use of the tool, a study focused on co-occurring informativity features in a diversified sample of texts is conducted (scientific, science popularization and journalistic). The results show statistical differences between the registers, considering the informativity indexes. Adapted from the source document