1 Selects
how the results will be sorted. The default is sorting by raw
FREQUENCY, where the most frequent results appear first. You can
also sort by RELEVANCE. Generally relevance is defined by the
Mutual
Information score, which is a measure of how "tightly" linked two
words are. This takes into account
the overall frequency of collocates, and sorts out high-frequency
"noise" words. Compare the regular listing for
hard * or
* himself and the relevance-sorted listings of the same:
hard * or
* himself.
If
you are comparing two sections of the corpus, then relevance shows
what words are in Section 1 but not Section 2 and vice versa.
2 Shows
how relevance is being calculated (see above)
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