Chapter 4
Words as Text Units

If you place a carriage return after every word then your unit of analysis, or text unit, will be the word.

Can you visualize a document in which text units are defined as "words"?

Every line in the document would consist of a single word. Unless you are a linguist, it's unlikely you will ever want to choose the word as your unit of analysis.

 

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