%0 Journal Article %T INTERFAZ COMPUTACIONAL DE APOYO AL AN¨¢LISIS TEXTUAL: ¡°EL MANCHADOR DE TEXTOS¡± %A VENEGAS %A REN¨¦ %J RLA. Revista de ling¨¹¨ªstica te¨®rica y aplicada %D 2008 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0718-48832008000200004 %X in this paper the computational tool called ¡°el manchador de textos¡± is described and exemplified. this tool helps find and highlight co-occurring linguistic features in digital texts and corpus. these features can be visualized in texts through colors, associated to each of these features. the computational tool also helps quantify co-occurring linguistic features producing an index that represents the density of the text prose. as an example of the use of the tool, a research focused on co-occurring informativity features in a diversified sample of texts is conducted (scientific, science popularization and journalistic). the results show statistical differences between the registers, considering the informativity indexes. %K corpus linguistics %K computational tool %K text analysis %K linguistic features. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-48832008000200004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en