Most books available on the WordCruncher Bookstore are divided several word lists. This is to separate components of the text so that you can focus on the most important sections. For example, you're probably less likely to search within the text of footnotes unless that part is particularly interesting to you. You can switch word lists in the upper-right corner of the search window. When switching word lists, the WordWheel will update to show the words that are within that word list.

The TED Talk Corpus has these word lists:

1. Text (only the text of the talks)
2. Headings (titles and authors)
3. Lemmas (the dictionary form and part of speech)
4. Morphological features (such as tense and pronoun type)

The top word list, Text, is designated as the most important word list since it is generally the most used word list. Separating your text into different word lists is useful when you know some of the text is less useful for searching (or useful for different reasons).

Note: There are times when a user might want to search all of the wordlists at once, which is why there's an “All Text” option.

Lexicon Attributes

An individual word list can be defined with a <LEX/> tag within the <sifx> element. The order that you position the <LEX/> tags within the <sifx> determines the order within WordCruncher's search window wordlist menu. It's highly encouraged to place the most important lexicon (like “Text”) as the first tag.

The lexicon has many attributes, but these attributes are the most important.

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