PRACTICAL TASK 5

KEYNESS
Calculate the keyness or significance value of the following words using the online Loglikelihood (LL) calculator. Place the LL value in the table below.
You can access the LL online calculator here http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/llwizard.html
The BNC Written Informative Sampler (779,027 total words)
Malaysian Business corpus (59,179 total words)
ITEM
FREQ

MB
MB%

BNC

BNC%

LOG-LIKELIHOOD (LL value)

Malaysia
says
million

151
226
160

0.26
0.39
0.28

8
168
40

Bhd
corporate
company
malaysian
billion
companies
dotcom
excellence
stake
business
its
Sdn_Bhd

93
104
215
80
80
129
56
59
63
129
331
42

0.16
0.18
0.37
0.14
0.14
0.22
0.10
0.10
0.11
0.22
0.57
0.07

0
18
360
0
2
129
0
5
20
249
1533
0

cash
project
EON

69
87
38

0.12
0.15
0.07

US

33
116
41

change
holdings

0.00 +
0.02 +
0.01 +
0.00
0.00
0.05
0.00
0.00
0.02
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.03
0.21
0.00

738.26
685.09
653.92

+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+

493.03
451.89
432.36
424.11
405.60
345.11
296.88
296.88
245.25
235.09
235.68
222.66

45
106
0

0.01 +
0.01 +
0.00 +

219.44
211.06
201.45

0.06

0.00 +

174.95

0.20
0.07

305
14

0.04 +
0.00 +

163.95
157.01