Using Chicago Homer / Frequency Lists

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whsiv
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Using Chicago Homer / Frequency Lists

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Hello there,

I'm trying to create word frequency lists based on individual books of Homer's works, not on a poem in its entirety or on the entire corpus. For example, I would like to create a frequency list of Book 1 of the Odyssey, that only looks at words within Book 1 of the Odyssey. After playing with The Chicago Homer a little bit, it seems like this should be possible with this tool, but I am just not using it correctly.

I think I may have been using the Within Line Range feature incorrectly (text: Odyssey; from: 1.1; through 1.440), because I received an "Internal Server Error" message. I don't receive this message if I don't use the within line range feature.

If this is the wrong tool for the job after all, I'd look forward to hearing your suggestions for another tool!

Thanks for the help!

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Re: Using Chicago Homer / Frequency Lists

Post by truks »

whsiv wrote: Tue Nov 26, 2024 8:29 pm Hello there,

I'm trying to create word frequency lists based on individual books of Homer's works, not on a poem in its entirety or on the entire corpus. For example, I would like to create a frequency list of Book 1 of the Odyssey, that only looks at words within Book 1 of the Odyssey. After playing with The Chicago Homer a little bit, it seems like this should be possible with this tool, but I am just not using it correctly.

I think I may have been using the Within Line Range feature incorrectly (text: Odyssey; from: 1.1; through 1.440), because I received an "Internal Server Error" message. I don't receive this message if I don't use the within line range feature.

If this is the wrong tool for the job after all, I'd look forward to hearing your suggestions for another tool!

Thanks for the help!
The GLG have produced frequency lists for students, including Homer broken down by book. You will want to check the lists thoroughly before using them, as they may contain lemmatisation errors (see their explanation at the top of the page):

https://glg.csic.es/Greek_Lexica/greekL ... tml#iliada

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