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• Corpus Linguistics and Statistics with R (book) – Around the word

  This textbook examines empirical linguistics from a theoretical linguist’s perspective. It provides both a theoretical discussion of what quantitative corpus linguistics entails and detailed, hands-on...

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  This post is a follow-up to the previous one on graph theory and corpus linguistics. I show how to plot a graph of collocation networks with R and the igraph package. The case study...

• POS-tagging in R with UDPipe – Around the word

  POS stands for “part-of-speech” (i.e. the grammatical nature of a word). POS tagging is the process of assigning a part-of-speech (such as noun, verb, adverb, adjective, determiner, etc.) to each word...

• Clustering corpus data with hierarchical cluster analysis – Around the word

  Hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) belongs to the family of multifactorial exploratory approaches. What it does is cluster individuals based on the distance between them. I illustrate HCA with the pr...

• Graph theory and corpus linguistics – Around the word

  This short post is the first of a series on network graphs for corpus linguistics. Because of the COVID19 pandemic, such graphs have been in the spotlight in the last few months for their...

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