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RLetters: A Web-Based Application for Text Analysis of Journal Articles

While textual analysis of the journal literature is a burgeoning field, there is still a profound lack of user-friendly software for accomplishing this task. RLetters is a free, open-source web application which provides researchers with an environment in which they can select sets of journal articl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pence, Charles H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4701179/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26731738
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146004
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Sumario:While textual analysis of the journal literature is a burgeoning field, there is still a profound lack of user-friendly software for accomplishing this task. RLetters is a free, open-source web application which provides researchers with an environment in which they can select sets of journal articles and analyze them with cutting-edge textual analysis tools. RLetters allows users without prior expertise in textual analysis to analyze word frequency, collocations, cooccurrences, term networks, and more. It is implemented in Ruby and scripts are provided to automate deployment.