Forms of computerized content analysis

Precusor to content analysis: information retrieval Creating textual databases Retrieving information by search commands Examples: google.com search on the internet Library's NUcat Primitive content analysis Word frequency counts Without a dictionary or thesaurus With a thesaurus, e.g., "democracy" (democrat, democrats, popular, freedom, etc.) Reviewing key words in context Smarter content analysis Analyzing style or structure Searching for relationships