The quality improves with each order of magnitude. To obtain a rich word sketch with lots of collocates, a few thousand occurrences are needed at least. However, a minimum of a few hundred occurrences is required for a usable word sketch. At least a few dozen occurrences are required. The corpus size itself does not affect the quality of the result, what matters is the absolute frequency of the word for which the word sketch should be generated. Such word sketches exist only for languages where lemmatization is not supported by Sketch Engine. Thus, using English as an example, a different word sketch would be produced for goes and a different one for went. A custom word sketch grammar has to be used if the corpus is tagged with a different tagset.Ī word sketch can also be generated from a non-lemmatized corpus in which case each word form will be treated independently. The corpus has to be tagged in Sketch Engine or with the same tagset as the one used by Sketch Engine so that the tags are the same as the ones used in the word sketch grammar. Universal word sketches are available for corpora without tagging and/or lemmatization, see below. The word sketch works with a POS-tagged and lemmatized corpus. Exceptions can exist if the collocation is so extremely frequent and that it beats all its competitors. The number of different competing collocates may be small but the frequency of each of them is extremely high which produces lots of competition for the collocate in question.Īs a result, it is quite common that the most common and frequent words ( new, go, be, small, very ) hardly ever receive high scores as collocates because they are used so often in combination with so many other words that there is lots of competition.
In the Pro Word Cloud action pane, click CREATE WORD CLOUD. Then select all and copy, because the add-in uses the text copied to the clipboard, there is no text entry area in the app. First you need to add all of the words to a text box in PowerPoint.
The action pane provides a nice selection of styling features, including custom font, many preset color scheme options, word case and size.Ĭreating a word cloud with Pro Word Cloud is not completely intuitive. Installing the add-in gives direct access to a side pane to quickly and easily convert on-slide text to stylized word clouds directly from within PowerPoint itself.
To install go to INSERT > STORE > search WORD CLOUD > and ADD the Pro Word Cloud add-in.
Pro Word Cloud is a Microsoft add-in that is free and can create world clouds with your custom text directly in PowerPoint. They are a popular way to visualize a message and something we have integrated into many presentations. Word Clouds are images composed of words pertaining to a particular subject, in which the size of each word indicates its frequency and importance.