WordCruncher Analytic Tools

You can only open books in WordCruncher viewer that are in one of the libraries attached to the Viewer. Publisher libraries can only be changed by the creating publisher: however, each copy of WordCruncher Viewer has a User Library where you can create bookcases, bookshelves, and add books.

Introduction

WordCruncher in general is an analytic tool that allows users to do searches with complex word arguments in the search. This level of research support is more than adequate for many researchers and scholars. However, there are additional research tools called reports. Below is a summary of all these tools.

Classes of WordCruncher Analytic Tools
Class Type	Description
Searching	The wide scope of search tools gives the researcher many different ways of finding textual examples.
Book Reports	These reports are based upon a single text. They are all instantiated from any Text Window.
Search Reports	These reports are based upon the WordWheel list (including filters that restrict the size of a list). They are all instantiated from the Search Window
Search Results Reports	These reports are based upon search results (including search bounds, vocabulary filters, and wild card searches). They are all instantiated from the Search Results Window

Searching

Type

Description

Single Word

You can do the following types of single word searches:

Source	Description
Text Window	Double click on any word and you will see every occurrence of that word.
WordWheel	Double click on any words in the WordWheel and you will see every occurrence of that word.
Typed search	Type a word in the Search Edit Box and press enter. You will see every occurrence of that word.

Phrases

You can do the following types of phrase searches

Source	Description
Text Window	Highlight a small block of words and right click. You will see a menu where you can select the type of search you wish to execute.
WordWheel	You can highlight a group of words (single click the first word, [Ctrl] click the other words. You can press insert and add of replace all the words in the search edit box. The is you press the Search Execute button you will see all the occurrences of all these words (they are OR’d together)
Typed exact phrase	Double quotes around a group of words finds all the occurrences of this group as an exact phrase (e.g. “and it came to pass”).
Typed partial phrase	Putting single quotes around a group of words finds all the occurrences of this group within 7 words of the first word (e.g. ‘faith hope charity’).
Complex phrases with custom logic	Type individual words and insert custom logic between each word token (e.g. faith &.5,0 hope)

Wild Card Searches

You can do the following types of wild card searches:

Source	Description
Typed single word	There are two types of wild card characters: (1) Asterisk – it stands for 0 through n characters; (2) Question Mark – it stands for a single character. Some examples: *ing would find every word than ends in “ing”; re?d would match read, redd, reed, reid, and rend.
Typed phrases with custom logic	You can incorporate a wild card word into a complex search (e.g. hope &.3,0 *ing would find every word that ends in ing that comes within 3 words of hope).

Book Reports
Type	Description
Book Information	General data about a book (e.g. number of verses, chapters, etc).
Character Usage	Listing of the characters found in the book (can be useful to find outriders).
Vocabulary Dispersion	A visual overview of each word’s occurrence patterns. Colored vertical bars represent word occurrence within 1000 word blocks. The display of this bars is within report columns that represent in width each table of contents entry (e.g. Old Testament). You can drill into a reference to see data for just that reference.
Vocabulary Frequency Distribution	The frequency counts for words are shown for the entire book or for sections (user created groupings of references like the “Five Gospels”). You could answer the following questions with this report: What words occur only in the Book of Mormon (I want a list of these words)? What words that occur 3 times as often in the Book of Mormon as the Bible (and occur in both books)? What is the highest frequency word that occurs only in the Book of Mormon? Filters and sorts can modify these lists.

Search Reports
Type	Description
Search Lexicon	Descriptive data on the current lexicon words (modified with filters). This includes: character utilization, word length, high frequency words, and low frequency words.
Word Usage	Where words occur (reference where they first occur, or words that occur only in a given reference).
Search Matrix	The frequencies of words and phrases in premade search lists are mapped across a set of books.
Paired Cognates	This report only works when there is an Expansion lexicon for the language. If finds groups of two words that are cognates of the same lexeme and that occur within a given proximity.

Search Results Reports
Type	Description
Neighborhood Report	Builds lists of words that collocate with a word or a phrase. Families of these collocating words can also be found. Examples of some of these families, that occur *outside* of our neighborhoods, can also be found.
Search Vocabulary	This lists all the words that were found by the search engine. With simple searches this report is of little value. With wild card searches, it lists all the words that matched the search criteria. The word frequencies can be mapped into sections (e.g. Book of Mormon, Bible, etc.).
Lowest Level Frequency Distribution	When you search for a list of OR’d words (and + the + of + out + them + these), this report can give you the phrase or verse where most of these words occur. This is VERY useful for finding examples of a group of words (e.g. for training materials).