DevonThink Pro has a concordance function that counts all the words in my research database, currently containing a little more than one thousand documents. This might seem like a trivial function, but it really is an interesting read. First there is a bunch of standard words:
Frequency Word --- --- 243220 the 111156 and 41456 for 38622 that 34588 The 25630 with 25591 are 18692 this 17210 from 15045 can ...
Interestingly enough, the first “useful” word that turns up is sound followed by music and time:
11490 sound 9839 music 9595 time 9179 musical
Then there are some system oriented words:
6276 data 6010 model 5649 system
A number of other relevant words follow, evenly spread between music, technology and gestures (which fits well with my research):
4951 Music 4909 performance 4509 control 4370 sounds 4358 analysis 4126 audio 4088 movement 4003 gestures 3944 video 3890 instrument 3787 motion 3546 object 3468 pitch 3336 gesture 3314 frequency 3157 human 3144 instruments 3140 body 3053 research 2966 structure 2908 hand 2806 process 2796 design 2793 visual 2782 physical 2695 computer 2666 signal 2607 Computer 2599 synthesis 2597 systems 2557 perception 2523 models 2500 features 2493 function 2433 interaction 2362 position 2324 movements 2193 University 2130 interface 2067 MPEG 2046 sequence 2042 expressive 1946 representation 1902 Musical 1888 speech 1887 method 1842 timbre 1811 mapping 1803 subjects 1786 performer 1749 auditory 1739 play 1712 algorithm 1702 environment 1693 development 1679 Sound 1627 temporal 1624 perceptual 1611 spectral 1576 processing 1552 acoustic 1498 action 1490 recognition
Postscript: You can tell when a PhD student is desperate trying to find all sorts of things to do other than writing that dissertation…
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