WORDij

1. Words collectively;

1858 W. ARNOT Laws from Heaven 2nd Ser. 22 [The tongue] may revolve with the rapidity..of..machinery, throwing off..a continuous web of wordage. 2002 Cheshire Life Aug. 120/1 It will take some time for all that wordage to be read and absorbed and a decision is not expected until the end of the year.

2. A quantity of words written or spoken; the number of words in a document.

1948 J. THURBER Let. 11 Mar. (2002) 423, I discovered that you and Ross seemed..a little proud of your abilities in estimating wordage by counting pages or hefting the manuscript. 1966 Punch 21 Sept. 455/2 Obviously he took his correspondence as seriously as he took his Journals and his daily wordage of publishable prose. 1999 I. HAMILTON Penguin Bk. 20th-cent. Ess. (2000) (Foreword) p. xii, An essay must always be conscious of its wordage. It should never be long enough to be a book and never short enough to fit on, say, a single page.

3. A set of computer programs for the qualitative/quantitative analysis of semantic and social networks, extracted from adjacency matrices m of word_ij.

Analyzes large volumes of text for the cooccurrences of words within a window and represents these in network analysis terms. Sources of text include: open source news stories, blogs, discussion forums, IRC chat, database records, open-ended survey responses, email. Volume of text speedily analyzed is virtually unlimited, dependent on your storage space. Include tools for representing word networks in terms of word-pair building blocks [WordLink] or global networks or node-centric networks [NodeTric]; optimal message creator [OptiComm], based on shortest paths between seed and target words; statistical tests for comparing whole networks, word pairs, or words in terms of relative frequencies; automatic time-segmentation of large collections of news texts; visualization of changes in word networks as movies over time [VISij]; automatic identification of social actor networks at the individual, group, department, organizational, or national level from news texts [WordLink Advanced Features], input formats for MultiNet/Negopy, UCINET, and Pajek, and more.

WORDij version 1.0 (1986) written in SPITBOL for mainframes, WORDij version 1.5 written in SNOBOL and REXX for pcs, WORDij 2.0 (1993) written in C for Unix and Dos, WORDij version 3.0 (2009) written in C++ with Java interface, operates under Windows, Mac, Linux operating systems.