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Text Frequency Analysis — Word and N-gram Counts

Text frequency analysis is a descriptive text-mining method that counts how often words, n-grams, and phrases occur in a corpus to reveal content patterns and dominant themes. It rests on the frequency-distribution insight formalised by George K. Zipf (1949), that a few terms occur very often while most are rare, and it is one of the most basic and widely used entry points into quantitative text analysis.

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Sources

  1. Zipf, G. K. (1949). Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort. Addison-Wesley. link
  2. Manning, C. D. & Schütze, H. (1999). Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing. MIT Press. ISBN: 9780262133609

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ScholarGateText Frequency Analysis (Text Frequency Analysis (Word and N-gram Frequency Analysis)). Retrieved 2026-06-04 from https://scholargate.app/en/text-mining/frequency-analysis-text