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Corpus linguistics in the LLM era – the changing nature of language data

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has brought both opportunities and challenges to the field of corpus linguistics. These AI systems generate vast amounts of language output that often appear natural, but is this output genuinely authentic? This raises important questions for corpus linguists about the nature of linguistic data and the methods used to study it.

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Manipulate data with dplyr

The dplyr package is based on a data manipulation ‘grammar’. This grammar provides a consistent set of ‘verbs’ that solve the most common data manipulation tasks. I illustrate five of these ‘verbs’: filter(), arrange(), select(), mutate(), and summarise().

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Should corpus linguists embrace the tidyverse?

Since the publication of my book on corpus linguistics with R, many colleagues have asked me if I was planning to switch the whole code to the tidy style (some of the code in the book makes use of some tidyverse packages. If you want to know my answer, please read on.