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In the Word at a glance widget, you can now examine the ratio of the number of occurrences of a word in a category to the size of that category multiplied by a million (instance per million, or ipm). With this widget you can determine, for example, whether Leo Tolstoy really used the word мир ‘peace’/’world’ more often than other Russian classics, taking into account the overall size of their texts. Yet another question: which romantic poet mentions всадник ‘horsemen’ more, Lermontov or Pushkin?

The new chart is available in the Statistics widget of the Word at a glance. The user can select the meta-attribute for which the chart is to be plotted from the list of the most representative attributes of the corpus. To see a pie chart containing the exact number of contexts of a word in a category or the number of texts containing the searched word, one has to switch from ipm to words or texts.

In addition, in the “Statistics” mode, the ipm information in the table has appeared. By default, the table is sorted by the number of occurrences. To change the sorting criterion, click on the column name.