Analysis steps for a topic X

Topic of investigation

• choose a topic or replace with your own topic

Theory: state-of-the-art

• brief overview
• necessary background to understand current analysis
• what have others found out about the topic?
  • differences/commonalities with our findings
  • new results

Methodology

• How did you investigate the topic and with which means (corpora, statistics, …)

• Corpus: e.g. Brown family corpus
• frequency distributions
• statistical analyis:
  • collocation analysis using association measures
  • …
• semantic grouping of units
• findings:
  • interesting, expected, unexpected facts
  • differences/commonalities (in sublanguages)
  • general picture
  • detailed investigation for specific selection of units
• link between general picture and detailed investigation
  • interesting additional information
  • detailed investigation explains general picture
  • …

Analyis

Conclusions

• wrap up your findings
• bring together detailed and general investigation
• draw general conclusions if possible
• is your hypothesis verified or falsified (not always black and white)
• compare to state-of-the-art