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THREAT-DEFUSER
Hybrid warfare and a plan to safeguard societies

Results of the Threat-Defuser project

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KWords

The KWords application is used for the analysis of texts based on comparison with general usage (reference corpus). The aim is to identify so-called keywords, which are word forms or lemmas appearing in the inspected text with a significantly higher frequency than in the reference corpus which should reflect the common usage. These key words serve as a basis for textual analysis and interpretation.

KWords is an online application (the only thing needed to use it is a web browser) and it is accessible without registration to all users at kwords.korpus.cz.

The first version of KWords was developed for the purpose of analyzing political speeches in collaboration with Brown University. The second version was developed as part of the Threat-defuser project. This version supports text analysis in more than 40 languages (using the international annotation standard Universal Dependencies), and also enables machine processing via a freely available REST API. Its intuitive web interface allows not only researchers in the social sciences and humanities to take advantage of keyword and keymorph analysis, but also non-specialist users, who can gain a more detailed insight into the content of texts and a better understanding of rhetorical strategies.

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