<p><strong>Weighted Centroid (Other)</strong> is a free, easy to use web-based tool designed to run in a browser window. It generates a circular <strong>visualization</strong> of <strong>high frequency words</strong> from an HTML, XML or plain text document at a user-specified web address or from a local file, and <strong>visualizes</strong> them in a <strong>Java applet</strong> that places them in a circle relative to their frequency and distribution within the source document.</p> <p>To display the applet, users must have Java 1.4.2_8 or later installed for their browser. In order to have the applet display in a separate tab or browser window, users must also tell their browser&rsquo;s pop-up blocker to permit popups from the TAPoR website. The tool can handle novel-length texts, though the tool&rsquo;s processing will slow proportional to the size of the text.</p> <p>There are a few <strong>options</strong> available for this tool. Users may break the text into <strong>paragraphs</strong>, according to its <strong>percentage</strong> of the larger text or into chunks of a specific number of words. They may also limit words to those not on the Glasgow <strong>stop list</strong>, choose how many of the top words to include in the visualization, and specify words in addition to those top words to include.</p> <p>Once the applet has loaded, users can click on or hover the mouse cursor over words to see their associations. HTML table and tab delimited text output is also available for users seeking an alternate means of representing the data.</p> <p>This tool has a few <strong>problems</strong>. The Java applet is sensitive to the volume of other traffic on the user&rsquo;s network and its processing may be slowed or it may fail to load when traffic is heavy. If it fails to load, refreshing the page or resubmitting the tool will generally resolve the issue. When the tool generates its list of top words, punctuation is often identified as a word and quotation marks appended to adjacent words. When the tab delimited output is selected, the tool may not process some characters correctly; please see List Words (Plain Text) for examples.</p> <p><strong><em>Despite these limitations, Weighted Centroid (Other) is a rich, interactive means of visualizing word relationships and distributions.</em></strong></p>