LitStats
LitStats is a tool for statistical analysis of natural language texts developed in the 1980s by Dr. Stephen Reimer of the University of Alberta. From an ASCII text, it can generate word frequency counts, word lengths, initial letter frequencies, sentence length frequencies and verbal segment frequencies. It was originally developed for an IBM 3033, and can still be run on systems using Windows XP.
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Creator(s): Stephen Reimer
Creator's Site: http://www.efs.ualberta.ca/People/Faculty/StephenReimer.aspx
Creator's Email: stephen.reimer@ualberta.ca
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- Type of analysis: Analysis
- Type of license: Shareware
- Ease of Use: Easy
- Historic Tool (developed before 2005): Influential No longer in active development
- TaDiRAH Methods: Other (analysis) Statistical Analysis
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Many thanks to Dr. Stephen Reimer, who provided a copy of LitStats, its documentation, and a bibliography of publications referencing the tool to TAPoR.
LitStats was reviewed in the following:
LitStats, version 1.62. Reviewed by Estelle Irizarry. Computers and the Humanities 25.6 (Dec. 1991): 455-458.
For more information on LitStats and its applications, please see the following:
Schmidhuber, Guillermo. “La segunda Celestina: Sor Juana y la Estilometría.” Vuelta 174 (May 1991): 54-60.
Irizarry, Estelle. “Some Approaches to Computer Analysis of Dialogue in Theatre: Buero Vallejo’s En la ardiente oscuridad.” Computers and the Humanities 25 (1991): 15-25.
Irizarry, Estelle. “Stylistic Analysis of a Corpus of Twentieth-Century Spanish Narrative.” Computers and the Humanities 24 (1990): 265-274.
Irizarry, Estelle. “Literary Analysis and the Microcomputer.” Hispania 71.4 (Dec. 1988): 984-995.
Irizarry, Estelle. “Some Approaches to Computer Analysis of Dialogue in Theatre: Buero Vallejo’s En la ardiente oscuridad.” Computers and the Humanities 25 (1991): 15-25.
Irizarry, Estelle. “A Computer-Assisted Investigation of Gender-Related Idiolect in Octavio Paz and Rosario Castellanos.” Computers and the Humanities 26 (1992): 103-117.
Raschio, Richard A., and Renée Milstein. “Bibliografia anotada de logicales, video discos y discos compactos para la enseñanza del español o para usa en cursos bilingües.” Hispania 76 (1993): 683-720.
Irizarry, Estelle. “The Two Authors of Columbus’ Diary.” Computers and the Humanities 27 (1993): 85-92.
Instituto Cervantes. Catálogo de materiales informáticos para el aprendizaje del español como lengua extranjera. Madrid: DORSL, 1997.