token/type count?
 

Hi,
I'm not sure if it's possible to do this in excel (I know you can do i
with Perl, but that looks too complicated for me!) but I was wondering
is it possible to get Excel to count the tokens/types of words in
cell? So I have a paragraph, and I want a measure of how repetitive i
is - how many words there are, divided by how many different types o
words there are. If this isn't possible in excel, does anyone have an
idea how I should do it, besides complex programming things?
Thanks,
Ciar

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Hi
a workaround: Copy your data to MS Word and use MS Word's statistical
features

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Hi,
I'm not sure if it's possible to do this in excel (I know you can do
it
with Perl, but that looks too complicated for me!) but I was
wondering -
is it possible to get Excel to count the tokens/types of words in a
cell? So I have a paragraph, and I want a measure of how repetitive
it
is - how many words there are, divided by how many different types of
words there are. If this isn't possible in excel, does anyone have
any
idea how I should do it, besides complex programming things?
Thanks,
Ciara


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The OP mentioned "different types of words". If he/she means "parts of
speech", Word can't count nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions,
etc., can it?

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 19:56:11 +0200, "Frank Kabel"
wrote:

Hi
a workaround: Copy your data to MS Word and use MS Word's statistical
features

token/type count?
 

Hi Myrna
AFAIK it can't (but could be wrong as I never use Word's statistical
features...)

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The OP mentioned "different types of words". If he/she means "parts
of
speech", Word can't count nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs,
prepositions,
etc., can it?

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 19:56:11 +0200, "Frank Kabel"

wrote:

Hi
a workaround: Copy your data to MS Word and use MS Word's
statistical
features