Co-word analysis is a content analysis technique that is effective
in mapping the strength of association between keywords in textual data.
Co-word analysis reduces a space of descriptors (or keywords) to a set
of network graphs that effectively illustrate the strongest associations
between descriptors. CoWord is a tool created originally at the COAST
Laboratory (Purdue University) and modified at the ACIS Laboratory (University
of Florida) that performs CoWord Analysis as described in Algorthim
Description paper. The tool is available
here and you will need a copy of the JGL and ORO jar files (see
the README file). A local copy of
these is avaialbe here but if possible, as stated in the documentation,
you should get these from the original sites..
If you want to avoid compiling the tool, you can use one of the following
versions
(follows the same use instructions, but skip the compilation):
File CoWord.jar (te be used with the
command java -jar CoWord.jar)
Windows Executable (to be used with
the Windows command prompt)
Linux Executable
Solaris Executable
MacOS X Executable