ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book demonstrates the applicability of keyword extraction techniques beyond the academic discipline of linguistics include Baker, McEnery and Archer. Archer indicates that corpus linguistic techniques can be used as a means of invalidating the close reading approach of literary scholars. One of the challenges given to contributors to the book is to identify a wider community of users that might benefit from using word frequency and keyword extraction techniques. Word frequency and keyword extraction techniques are likely to be of most benefit to the growing number of academic and non-academic researchers who investigate primary source documents, which are digitized in a way that makes them computer-readable. Researchers within some disciplines are likely to find the transformation of a text into a list of words a rather daunting prospect.
