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Glossary of Terms in Discorra

Analysis Type

The goal of your analysis — such as running a quick scan, grading content, comparing against competitors, or analyzing research.
Discorra tailors insights based on the type you choose.

Content Set

(Linguistic term: Corpus)
A grouped collection of related content you want to analyze — such as ads, pages, emails, competitor copy, or customer feedback.

Core Library

(Linguistic term: Benchmark Corpus)
A reusable “gold standard” dataset of your best or most important content. Used as a benchmark for grading and comparisons.

##3 Market Scan

(Linguistic term: Search Scrape)
Automatically gathers live web content based on a topic, category, or competitor. Lets you explore how the market is talking today without manual collection.

Market Scan Topic

(Linguistic term: Search Query)
The topic, category, or competitor you want Discorra to explore when running a Market Scan.

Project

A workspace where you organize content sets and analysis outputs for a specific marketing task — such as a launch, audit, or repositioning.

Upload Content

(Linguistic term: Text/File Import)
Add content manually by uploading a file, pasting copy, or typing text directly.

Message Themes

(Linguistic term: Messaging Pillars)
The core ideas your content consistently leans on. Discorra identifies these automatically.

Signature Phrases

(Linguistic term: Key Phrases / N-grams)
Important multi-word phrases that define how your brand or competitors talk about a topic.

Missed Opportunities

(Linguistic term: Gap Terms)
Themes or keywords competitors use that you don’t — indicating potential messaging gaps.

Keyword List

(Linguistic term: Lexicon)
A curated set of words representing a concept, such as trust or urgency.

Message Strength

(Linguistic term: Messaging Salience)
How dominant or influential a message theme is relative to others.

Theme Coverage

(Linguistic term: Topic Diversity)
How broad or narrow your range of topics is.

Emotional Tone Profile

(Linguistic term: Sentiment Analysis)
Breaks your content into positive, negative, and neutral tone to show the emotional direction.

Tone Score

(Linguistic term: Comparative Sentiment Score)
A summary of your overall sentiment level across a content set.

Tone Stability

(Linguistic term: Sentiment Volatility)
Indicates whether your tone is consistent or varies sharply across content.

Credibility Score

(Linguistic term: Trust Lexical Density)
Measures how strongly your content communicates reliability, safety, and expertise.

Action Energy

(Linguistic term: Urgency Lexical Density)
Measures how much your content drives immediacy or action.

Word Frequency

(Linguistic term: Token Frequency)
How often a word appears in your dataset.

Emphasis Score

(Linguistic term: Z-Score)
Shows how much more (or less) a word appears in one content set compared to another.

Market Language Overlap

(Linguistic term: Keyword Overlap)
Keywords shared between your content and competitors.

Context Words

(Linguistic term: Collocates)
Words that frequently appear around your chosen term, revealing how it's framed in real usage.

Focus Term

(Linguistic term: Node)
The word you’re analyzing inside the Context Explorer.

Context Explorer

(Linguistic term: Concordancer)
Shows every instance of a term along with the words around it.

Context Range

(Linguistic term: Window)
How many words of left/right context to display around the focus term.

Messaging Overlap

(Linguistic term: Resonance)
How similar your language is to a competitor or benchmark.

Theme Alignment

(Linguistic term: Topic Alignment)
How well your themes match another dataset’s themes.

Theme Strength

(Linguistic term: Topic Z-Scoring / Shared Strength)
Indicates which themes stand out most powerfully relative to another dataset.

Content Quality Score

(Linguistic term: Corpus Grade)
A high-level score summarizing clarity, balance, diversity, trust, and noise inside a dataset.


Backend Linguistics (Hidden Behind UI)

These metrics power insights but are not shown directly to marketers.

  • Tokens — individual words after text cleaning
  • Collocates — statistical co-occurrence patterns
  • PMI, LogDice, LLR, T-score — association strength metrics
  • Z-Scores — measures of relative emphasis
  • N-grams — frequent multi-word sequences

Discorra abstracts these into intuitive marketer-facing concepts like Context Words, Emphasis Score, and Message Themes.