Welcome
The Lexos suite of tools is designed for use by linguistic
scholars of all skill levels, and is available online at
lexos.wheatoncollege.edu.
The Lexos suite is centered around using Lexomic methods to analyze
texts, approaching the humanities-based goals of identifying authorship
and uncovering textual lineage with the power of modern computing and
advanced statistical techniques. The Lexomic approach 'normalizes'
texts, by reducing them to their most basic components: words. These
words can then be evaluated for frequency and variation, allowing the
user to discover anomalies within their texts that may point to changes
in authorship, or perhaps to a different set of reference material used
by the writer.
It is important to note that Lexomic methods and use of the Lexos suite
do not replace traditional humanities scholarship, but rather work
alongside and in conjunction with it. All the data gained from
dendrograms and Rolling Window Analysis is utterly worthless without the
academic background required to actually explain the variations found
in the data. The role of the Lexos suite is to find these variations,
thereby opening up new avenues of research and questioning.