<p><strong>Compare with Control (Beta)</strong> is a free, easy to use web-based tool designed to run in a browser window. It compares a text to a control text and generates a <strong>list of words by frequency </strong>with <strong>statistical information</strong> from a plain text document at a user-specified web address or from the user's files.</p> <p>This tool offers a few <strong>options</strong>. Users may compare their text with the provided <strong>Brown corpus</strong> or provide a corpus from their files, and choose to include all words or exclude those words on the Glasgow <strong>stop list</strong>.</p> <p>The <strong>results</strong> can be sorted either by frequency, or by ratio over the control corpus, and be displayed as HTML or a tab delimited list. The information provided in the results includes counts, relative frequencies and relative distributions. This tool can handle novel-length texts, though the tool's processing slows as the text size increases.</p> <p>The tool has a few <strong>problems</strong>. While it will accept HTML and XML documents, it strips all tagging and processes it as if it were plain text. The tab delimited list option has a poor alignment of headers to columns, impacting the clarity of the data. In addition, users are unable to provide their own stop word list.</p> <p><strong><em>Despite these limitation, Compare with Control (Beta) is an effectively way to quickly generate statistics showing the difference between a given text and a control corpus.</em></strong></p>