Word frequency algorithm for natural language processing

Question

Without getting a degree in information retrieval, I\'d like to know if there exists any algorithms for counting the frequency that words occur in a given body of text. The

Answer 1

I wrote a full program to do just this a while back. I can upload a demo later when I get home.

Here is a the code (asp.net/c#): http://naspinski.net/post/Findingcounting-Keywords-out-of-a-Text-Document.aspx